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The Noble County Republican. (Caldwell, Ohio), 1886-07-08

The Noble County Republican. (Caldwell, Ohio), 1886-07-08 page 1

THE REPUBLICAN. ADVERTISING RATES i PUBLISHES ErraztY t nim sday, Dl BANK BUILSINOk r T IT nn Y On oolumn ana year M One-bait oolumn one year M Ot One-fourth column one year.... SO Ot One-eighth oolumn oae year. UK Road Notiaes, S3.00; Attacbmeat Notices, 12.50; Lesal Advertising at tbe rate prescribe 17 UW. Local Advertising, tea eenti per Uae tat vary publication. Obituary Resolution! from Orders and SoeJ ties, when they exceed six lines, five oents a line for each additional line of eight words, money to aoooupaay the resolution. JLMU CAIDWEU, I0SLE COUITT, GH0i TERMS I F Yea lm Atmo. AMnaaB tetters to r. m. wolit, Hobl Oo., Out, VOL. XXVII. CALDWELL, O., THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1886. NO. 50. NOBLE mi B CAN, 1 MISSCRCESUS. My Lady Disdain, my Lady Disdain Of contumelious m!ea, As prouii and as cold us in days of old, The proudest and coldest queen; With your chiseled face and your stately , graoe. You tyrannize over men; And your beauty rare makes us all despair;But your beauty -will fade What then? My Lady Disdain, my Lady Disdain, Vou're lovely, anti gay and young, I agree in sootb there is naught like youth. As poets have often sung; But the years go by as the swallows fly With swiftness beyond our ken. You are radiant now with your white, smooth brow; But the wrinkles will oome What then? My Lady Dlsda'n, my Lady Disdain, You've servants at call and beck, And jewels most rare gleam amid your hair Or sparkle upqn your ne"k. You have w ealth at hand that you may command By dlpp:ng a golden pen, And an income line, that 1 wish was mine; But your father may fail W hat then? Rambler. THE DIAMOND DOLLAR. Which Illustrated the TJpa and Downs of Journalism. , "Worst thing in the world for weak eyes, young woman." 1 The young woman looked up from the magazine in hfcr lap and smiled at her gray-bearded mentor on the opposite side of the street car. She smiled with her whole face dimpled chin, red cheeks, full lips; even the eyes behind the convex glasses of her princenez twinkled. "Thank you," she said, shutting the book softly, "I know it. I was merely glancing at the pictures." Then she turned her amused glance toward the front part of the car, and met the eyes of the driver staring straight at her. His face . lighted up when her glance met his, and with his rough glove he patted the left side of his coat, as though it shielded something which concerned her. The car was one of those little-wheeled boxes locally known as- the "Pound Gap Bobtails," which ply between Cincinnati and its Kentucky suburb, Newport. The driver, sole autocrat, dividing his time among the mules, the passengers and the small boys who everywhere mark bobtail cars for their own, was muffled to the mouth in an old oil-skin coat, belted at the waist with a leather strap. His cap was pulled down to shield his face from the rain, into the teeth of which he was forced to drive, and when he entered the car to collect the fares his heavy cowhide boots completed a grotesque picture. which would have attracted attention even in Castle Garden. Evidently he cared less for style than for comfort. "What is the fare to Newport?" .iT 1.. 111 I started at the musical voice, and looked at the man closely. "Wh-a-a-t?" I said, "not Ferguson, of the Gazetted "Same party, dear boy, same party," He laughed in the honest, whole-souled way that I knew so well, rang the bell of his punch twice, smiled at the pretty girl, who seemod to enjoy my supnse, and then clattered out to his place at the brake, where I present- lv Ininpfl him "This is rough, Ferguson, deuced rough twelve dollars a week and seventeen hours a day! Can't you do better than this?" "Classical occupation, dear boy. One of the children of Greek mythology, you will remember, aspired to drive a car his father's car, but while his route was a trifle dryer than mine"- "It was not necessary to make a guy of himself in cow-hide boots. Thatgirl inside is laughing at you." "1 know it. Shi' always does when she ridee with m " He looked tin eh the glass door of the car, and ag n patted the side of his coat when La met the young woman's eyes. The gesture seemed to please her. . "Another case of the maiden and the coachman," remarked Ferguson, as he slowed up to take on a passenger. Evidently heiiad lost none of his high spirits since he had drifted out of journalism into the street-carservice. "But seriously now, don't you know her?" "No, I can not say that Ido," I said, evercly. "That's Virginia." t looked again at the girl. She was as charming a specimen of young womanhood as is often met with even in the cultured parts of Kentucky. The infantile cheeks and dimpled chin toned down the severity of her eyeglasses, and from the brown plume in her hat to the narrow toe of her shoe she was what is popularly known as "stylish." Du Maurier might have copied her pose for that of one of his high-bred women. "Yes, shythat's Virginia. You have laughed at my verses to her three years, and if we drop all the passengers before the end of the route is reached. I will take you inside arid present you. She knows you by name already. I have talked with her about you a hundred times. She likes that little story of yours, 'The Cruise of the Mermaid,1 immensely, and always looks up your column tho first thing in the Clarion.'1'' Then he seemed to drift into another line of thought. "Yes, sir, it is rough," he said, "eighteen hours a day, seven days in the week, is too manv hours for a man to work; but, thank God, I am done! This is my last trip. I have something here" he tapped the left side of his oil-skin coat, again "which has put me on my feet. Virginia and I had several blocks, alone, together, this morning, and she knows. That's what wo are so gay about. You remember that 'Diamond Dollar?' " Did I remember it? It was that "Diamond Dollar" that cost Ferguson his desk on the Gazette. Not more than two months ago he was as dapper, well-dressed and apparently successful a man as there was in the Cincinnati roportorial fraternity. His duty was tho covering of the news along the river fronts of the Kentucky towns facing and above Cincinnati, and, being a graceful writer, he managed to get in a column or two of breezy special matter on miscellaneous subjects each week every column of such matter being a clean addition of five dollars to his not princely salary. It was nine o'clock one Thursday night when word came over the tele- phono wires from the hre chieftain s office that the tow-boat Ohio Greyhound was burning at her landing, three miles Dove JNewport. in nfteen minutes finme the supplementary report that her entire tow of seven barges was doomed, and that John Stacy and "Stumpy," the cook, were missing presumably burned with the wreck. "Ferguson can have two columns for that," complacently remarked the city editor. "Here, Newport, get a rig; jump out there; find Ferguson and help him. Get in as much as possible before twelve, and, if it promises good matter after that, wire the facts. We will dress them up." . At navi-pasi rweive o ciock i was again at the office with the skeleton article. The fire had taken place early in the afternoon. Three lives and $65,-,000 worth of property were lost. I bad jioea nothing of Ferguson. But while this effect Ferguson strolled into the office. Ho was at peace with himself and the world, and his stiff, white collar lifted itself immaculately above his black tie and unruffled shirt front. 'Nothing moving," he said, airily, as he placed the day's report on the editor sdesk. "Every thing dead along the river to-day." "No fights nor fires?" asked the city editor in his blandest tones. "Nothing; but here is a little special that will look well in the Sunday supplement. I have been up to thelrsrary looking up points for it all afternoon. With a scare head first line. 'The Diamond Dollar!' it will prove as good matter as actual news, and " "There is no actual news, then?" "Nothing of importance." By this time the telegraph men, the managing editor, half of the local force, and even one or two of the brevier writers, had drifted into the city room, wheie they floated about aimlessly, waiting for the explosion that was to lift the unfortunate Ferguson. But, suspecting nothing, he continued his panegyric on the Diamond Dollar. "Unless you call this piece of special matter news, there is none. But it will be news to most of the readers. It deals with the subject of rare coins, giving the dates and the values of all United States coins worth more than their face value. There are hundreds of pieces in daily circulation for which collectors would give twenty times their value as bullion. This article will serve to tell the people what date! of coin are in demand, so that they may watch the money that passes through their hands and sell the rare coins at a premium. There is one dollar, of the mintage of 1804, which it worth $.300." For the past few seconds the city editor had been rapidly writing upon a slip of paper, and here he interrupted enthusiastic remarks about the valuable dollar. "You know the rule of the office, Mr. Ferguson," he said, in an icy tone; "no man with us gets a chance to be grossly scooped twice. You have failed to catch one of the most sensational tires of the year, -although you had twelve hours in which to do it. Here is an order on the counting room for your money up to Saturday night You have my best wishes for your future. Good night!" That was how he lost his desk on the Gazette, and, breezy writer that he was, in three months he had found it necessary to take up the lines of a street-cai driver's life or starve. "You remember that Diamond Dollar?" he said again, after answering the sharp clang of the bell above his head by bringing the car to a stop long enough for the gray-bearded talker to alight: "well, curiously enough, I have found one of them. I should never have known its value had I not collected tho data for that unfortunate article of mine; and " 1 "Do you mean me to understand that you have found a dollar of 1804, actually worth $500 ? ".Precisely so, dear boy. Drivers handle a great deal of silver, and amongthe money in my pocket last night I found this." He had unbuckled his belt, unbuttoned his coat, and with some difficulty brought out in his gloved fingers a worn silver dollar, without the milled edges which characterize the late issues of the coin. He was singularly excited. He looked at the piece of silver as a a doomed man might look at an unexpected reprieve." It meant another start in life, a chance to build up wealth and reputation on ajournal of his own; it meant a wife; it gave him Virginia. His hand trembled slightly with the tumult of his thoughts. One of the car's front wheels, struck a stone, jumped the track, and for afew seconds the vehicle jolted violently over the cobble-stones. Ferguson's face suddenly turned to the color of ashes. He leaped over the dash-board surrounding the platform, groped in the mud under the car wheels, and then, with his lips set tightly together, handed me a battered and bent piece of silver. I was the diamond dollar. It had slippod from his uncertain grasp, and the sharp flanges of the car-wheelj had ground the date and figures frm its face and bent it almost out of resemblance of a coin. Then Ferguson took up the lines again, and from his present prospects the people who ride behind him will con tinue to laugh at his old dress and asso ciate him in their minds with the mules he drives for months, or Derhatjs vears. to come. He knows that there are half a dozen morals to be extracted from his little story, and has given me permission to publish it Cincinnati Enquirer. LINCOLN MEMORIALS. Furniture and Books from the Old Spring field House and Law-Office. John W. Keyes, formerly of Spring field, 111., but now of this city, has fitted up a room which he calls the "Lincoln Memorial Room." All of the furniture was used by Abraham Lincoln, either in his house or his law- office in Springfield ' prior to his de parture for Washington, D. C, to be inaugurated President of the United States. In the collection there is the old office desk and book-case, the old inkstand, ten well-thumbed law-books; one volume of the statues of Indiana. the first law-book that Lincoln ever read, and which belonged to David Furnham, his friend and companion in Indiana from 1819 to 1831; one leaf from his exercise-book and his boyhood signature; six hair-cloth parlor chairs; one marble-top table; one mirror set ma gilt frame; one hearthrug; one walnut cupboard; the old mahogany-veneeited sofa which was made by hand at Springfield in 1837 by Daniel E. Ruckel, on Mr. Lincoln s order, and used by him until February, 1861; the old hickory chair in which he was seated when informed of his nomi nation to the Presidency: one carriage cushion and a photograph taken of him in JMay, 18o8, during the celebrated campaign between him and Stephen A. Douglas. The photograph represents him with his hair very much rumpled, and the story in connection therewith is to the effect that when in the photographer's studio one of his friends observed that his hair was combed remarkably smooth. "That's a fact," he replied, "and the picture won't look like me." With that he ran his hand through his hair and made it look natural. Mr. Keyes only began his purchases some months back and has already gotten together a creditable collection, which he takes great pleasure in ex hibiting to his friends. Several letters from William H. Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, attest the genuineness of a number of the articles. Chicago lrioune. George Holyland, of Fork, Md., was shearing a sheep the other day, when the animal kicked and drove one of the blades of the sharp shears into George's abdomen, inflicting a wound from which he soon died. A dead shark was washed ashore in Charleston the other day. The lawyers, after weeping over it, buried it with all the honors due ton member of the bar. Philadelphia Herald. An exchange gravely inquires "Why will men lie?" Because men will go nsning. Chicago Journal. FALSE PROPHETS. A Profession Very Popular Among: the Men and Women of the Last Century. The last century was prolific of false prophets. Jane Wardlaw, the wife of a tailor at Bolton le Moors, Lancashire, started the delusion that Christ's second advent was at hand, and that He would appear in the form of a woman. Shortly afterward Ann Lee, wife of a blacksmith, living in Toad lane, Manchester, adopted the views of Jane Wardlaw, but went far beyond them, and became known as the mother of the sect who now began to be called Shakers, because they made a strange kind of dancing one element of their worship. Ann Lee (whose husband's name was Stanley) had been a Quaker, but her new doctrine had no connection with her previous convictions. She professed to see visions, and in 1770 she declared that the Lord Jesus had appeared to her one night and had become one with her, so that whatever she said or did was Hissayingor doing. Her claim was to be the bride of the Lamb, as seen by St. John, but her pretensions met with little acceptance in England, and she was inspired to seek a new home in America. To New York she went in 1794, accompanied by seven disciples and by her husband, who soon separated from her, for now arose a new tenet the necessity of celibacy. This doctrine not commending itself to the citizens of New York, Ann Lee went out into the wilderness of Nis-kenna and founded the settlement of Water Vilet, which still exists. She made herself very obnoxious to the American Government, was arrested as a British spy, and thrown into prison. Persecution increased her notoriety, and she became known as the "female Christ." She died in 1783, but her followers protested that she was not dead, only "withdrawn from sight. Joanna boutheott was born in Devon shire about 1750. She spent her young days as a domestic servant, but in the middle of life took to uttering prophecies couched in coarse and uncouth prose or verse. She found followers in Exeter, but soon went up to London, where she obtained a wider field for the exercise of her talents. She drew her inspiration, like others of her kind, from the Apocalypse, and made a con siderable income by the sale of seals, which were warranted to insure the salvation of those who purchased them. In the year of 1814, being then over sixty years of age, she gave out that she was the divinely-appointed mother of the Shiloh, and that his birth on the ensuing 14th of October would be the 3econd coming of Christ. Her adherents then numbered about 100,000, and they provided a magnificent cradle for the expected infant. A crowd assembled at the predicted midnight, and only dispersed when they were informed that Mrs. Southcott had fallen into a trance. On the 27th of December following she died. Her followers refused to believe that she was dead, and woud not allow her to be buried; but when descomposi- tion began to set in they consented to a post-mortem examination, which revealed dropsy as the cause of her death. Kobert Matthews, in America, at the beginning of this century, took up the profession of prophet, and entered on an extraordinary career of imposture, fraud and crime. He was arrainged for murder, but only convicted for as- salting his daughter with a whip. Of his latter days we have no account, nor are his blasphemous and nefarious doings worth recording further. (Juwer. A FAIR EXCHANGE. Why a Detroit Tay-Payer Preferred a Patent Door-Spring. Whetstone to He slid quietly into a Jefferson ave nue hardware store yesterday forenoon, unrolled a paper on the counter, and as he held up a patent door-spring he said: "I buy him two days ago, und I like to oxchange him for a wheatstonc." "What's the matter?" "Vhell, I can't make him fit on my screen door;" "Why, that's the easiest thing in the world. See here: This end screws on the door, and that end on the casing." "I tried him dot vhay, und he doan1 work." "When it is on you take this metal pin and turn the spring. See the holes there?" "I does dot vhay, und my screen doors flies open." "You turned the wrong way." "I turns him eatery way. Sometimes der door vhas wide open, und all der flies in Michigan go in, und sometimes he vash shut oop so tight I can't get in my own house. I begin on him in der morning, und I doan' leave off till night, but he won't work right." "That's curious. What tools did you have?" "I use a hammer und scrcw-diifcr und cold-shisel und saw und auger und crow-bar und lots of more, but he doan' 'spring for me. My wife works at him, too, und my hired man he lose half a 'day, und I vash discouraged. I guess I trade him fpr a whealstone." "Well, Til exchange with you. but I'm sure I can show you how to adjust it." "I guess I doan' try any more. Yon see, my life vhas short, und I can't spare so mooch time mit machine ry. If I get a wheatstone I doan' haf to screw him on nor turn him around. Dcre vhas no pins or ratchets iu his stomach. He vhas all right both ends oop. Maype he doan' keep oudt flies, but he makes no troubles for me." ' The exchange was made, and the man went away light-hearted, calling back from the door: "I can make oudt a wheatstone all right, und I vhas obliged mit you. A wheatstone winds oop only one vhay." r-Detroit Free Press. THE WHITE HOUSE. What Its maintenance Costs the Conntry In Connection with the President. Most people believe that the $50,000 a year which the President gets as his salary is the sum total. This is a mistake. The estimate of the amount Which Congress is to appropriate this year lies before us, open at the page relating to the President We see that S36.084 is asked for him, iu addition to his salary of $00,000, to pay the salaries of his subordinates and clerks His private secretary is paid $3,250, his assistant private secretary $2,250, his stenographer $1,800, five messen gers each $1,200, a steward, $1,800, two door-keepers who each get $1,200, four other clerks at good salaries, one tele- fraph operator, two ushers getting 1,200 and $1,400, a night usher getting $1,200, a watchman who gets $900, and a man to take care oi hres who receives $864 a year. In addition to this there is set down $8,000 for incidental expenses, such as stationery, carpets and the care ol the President s stables. And further on, under another heading. there. is a demand for nearly $40,000 more. Of this $12,500 is for repairs and furnishing the White House, $2,500 lor fuel, $3,000 is for the green house. and $15,000 is for gas, matches and the stables. Ihe White House, all told. costs the country, In connection with the President, considerably over $125,- duu a year. ban Francisco World. A settlement near Tacom a, W. T., has the euphonious name of Succotash Valley. .... A GREAT PROJECT. An English View of the Hudson Bay Route from Canada to England. The commencement of a railway which will run northwards, from the heart of the Canadian Dominion to Hudson Bay, again raises the question of a shipping route by way of Hudson Bay and Strait to England. Dr. Bell, of tho Canadian Geological Survey, when the matter was being discussed some years ago, said that the proposed route by rail from Winnipeg to Fort Churchill, on Hudson Bay, thence by steamer to England, would be twelve hundred and ninety-one miles shorter than the Montreal route, and about seventeen hundred miles as compared with the New York route. Port Nelson, at the mouth of the Nelson river, has been finally chosen as the terminus of the proposed railway from Winnipeg. The mouth of the Nelson is reported to be open all winter for twenty or twenty-five miles up, owing to the tide. Its average width lor that distance up is about three miles. At Seal Island, twenty-five miles up, there is a capital harbor, and water enough for any ocean steamer. Hudson Bay forms the central basin for the drainage of the northern portion of North America; and of the many rivers which flow into it from all sides, about thirty are of considerable size. The Albany and the Churchill are the longest on the western side; but the Nelson, with a course of only about four hundred miles, carries the largest body of water down to the sea, and may be ascended by small steamers for about seventy or eighty miles. Before the navigation of tho bay was understood, it was usual to take two seasons for a voyage from England; and the Captain who was fortunate enough to return the same year was awarded a prize of fifty pounds. Since 1884, the Canadian Government has received reports from observers stationed along the coasts of the strait and on the islands as to the navigable nature of the bay and strait. Lieutenant Gordon, in 1884 and 1885, seemed to be of opinion that the bay and strait would in ordinary seasons, so far as ice and weather considerations are concerned, be practicable for Northwest trade by tolerably well-built vessels for four months. The bay is reported as navigable at all times, as it never completely freezes over; nor does the strait, the ice met with there being floe-ice from Fox's Channel. The report of the select committee of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly in charge of the question, in 1885, was to that effect that ports on the shores of the bay are open on an average from four and a half to five months in each year to ordinary vessels, and that both bay and strait seemed to bo singularly free from obstruction to navigation in the shape of shoals or reefs, and during the period of open water iroin storms ana fogs. Should this shipping route by way of Hudson Bay and Strait to England prove a practicable one, even for a few months in summer, it will enable the Canadians to send us grain and produce from the great Northwest at even a cheaper rate than they they have been doing hitherto. Chambers' Journal. PLAUSIBLE OPINIONS. T! An American Scientist's Idea of the Formation of Nortb America. The opinion is expressed by an eminent American scientist, in . a recent lecture, that the North American Continent had the beginning of its form ation in islands of matter rising out of the immense ocean, which grew until they finally touched each other. Many of these islands were volcanoes that throw up matter that had formed below the surface of the water, and were larger below the water than above it. The Hawaiian Islands have had "many volcanoes and were much formed by them. Their whole area above the sea is no more than that of the State of Massachusetts, but their combined bases must be equal to the whole of JNew England and JNew York united, Thus the original islands of thi3 con tinent could easily have been made to enlarge and join each other, and the granite rock so abundant was doubtless once erupted from volcanoes, like flow ing lava. Among the first volcanic islands must have been Greenland, Canada east of Winnipeg, the Atlantic district, the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas: but as the islands rose and enlarged great depressions would naturally commence and go on, and in this way the depressions of Hudson's Bay, the Mississippi Valley, and the Salt Lake and .Nevada basins were formed. These depressions would fill with mass ive sediments, which would eventually become rocks, and the depressions would have a saucer or platter shape JS. X. bun. SWEEPING DAY. How It Can Be Bobbed of Some of Its Alost Disagreeable Features . If you look at your house-work as the means to a delightful home, it will not seem hard or hateful; even the dreaded sweeping day, which I own to liking worse than wash day, leads to the repose of fresh, fragrant rooms, and a sanctity from dust and defacement. It need not be quite so much a penance it you have proper aids. (These are covers of glazed cambric tor large furniture, carpet sweeper, brushes, patience, care, etc.) - If you sweep with a broom, use damp tea leaves, bran, coarse meal saw-dust or dry' snow, to keep down the dust, remembering to have these things damp, not wet; to sprinkle only a yard or two where you mean to sweep at once, and to t;jke it up with the sweepings before you go to the next place. Brushing a clamp mass of dust and trash over a whole icarpet is not the way to improve it. iFino carpets like Wilton or Moquette should be swept with the pile to keep them from wearing; and dealers say that Brussels should be swept only one way. It is a good rule always to begin at the corner tartuest irom the door. taking up the dust every yard or two. .Take rugs up, bringing opposite sides together, not to spill the dust; lay them faoo down on green sward, or hang them so out of windows, and beat the backs till all the dust is out. Beating on the face sends the dust into the firm woven ground of the rugs. Baptist Weekly. A Juvenile Tilt. First Boy My pa blows a horn in the band. Second Boy That ain't nothin'. F. B. Mischief it ain't; mo'an your your ole pa can do. My pa goes to parties an' picnics an' your ole pa can't go there. S. B. Yes, an' my pa is in the peni tentiary an' your ole pa can't go there, eitner. ArKansaw Traveler. A strange accident happened to a consignment of heavy cattle sold for Shipment to England. Rough weather was encountered on the voyage, and the stanchions to which the cattle were tied gave way, forcing the stock to the other side of the ship and causing it to careen so much that to lighten the vessel the cattle were thrown overboard, a loss of $13,000. A PLANT HOSPITAL. How Siokly Shrubs aid Honse-Plants are Doctored and Cured. "Heard I had started what?" ex claimed Mr. Rose, the florist. 'A plant hospital for sick and debil itated posies." "Well, I guess you'd think so. I began to think of establishing another branch to my business last fall and calling it a consumptives' home." "You dont mean to say that the busi ness is so extensive as to warrant making aspecialty of it?" "You just drop around here the sccpnd week in September and see the perlect avalanche of scrawny, half- starved, neglected, bilious, and colicky-looking patients I have consigned to my care for the winter, expecting that l can put new lite into them before spring comes again and return them to their homes in full bloom of health. Why, actually, I have had dead patients brought in for me to bring to life again, and no amount of persuasion on my part could make the parties bringing them believe but what it could be done." "What class of invalids are usually brought in?" '.tropical plants, rubbers, lobelias and camellias. They are families brought up in the South whose peculiar, delicate constitution is not adapted to tho jump-jack changes of weather in the North around the lakes. The business is a great annoyance, for I can not make any profit from it to speak of; but, as the parties asking to nave tneir patients cared tor are my best winter customers, I can not well refuse them." "Who are they principally?" "People who live on the swell avenues, who travel a great deal go abroad part of the winter and to the seaside in the summer." "Do you have any plants to board during the summer?" "Yes, but not so many in proportion to what I receive in the fall. While people are away at the seaside or mountains I play doctor and visit their pets, administer physic and perform Burgical operations, amputate diseased and affected limbs. Do you see that load on the wagon outside? They have been here all winter. They looked like a batch of driod-up weeds when I took them in." "What, was dona trt t.hp.m tn hrmo them to the condition they are in now? "We changed the loam, put m a fertilizer, and kept them well trimmed through the winter. A small shrub that is kept trimmed has less branches to draw away the vitality of the plant stock, and is far more liable to blossom heavily and last longer than plants left to shape themselves. Again, they present a more symmetrical appear ance and please the eye thereby." "flow lonw has this business been a custom? Where did it originate?" "Where it originated I do not believe any one could tell you, and I suppose it has been in vogue to a small extent as long ago as people who kept house plants and private conservatories were obliged to have some one take care of them while they traveled." Chicago Tribune. .. MARRIAGE IN BRAZIL. Consanguineous Unions the Rule Instead of the Exception. Consanguineous marriages in Brazil are the rule and not the exception, there being really more such than of those between parties not related by blood. There are very many, not only between first cousins but also between double first cousins; and there are probably more marriages between a man and his niece, or a woman and her nephew, than there are of first cousins in America, even without taking into consideration the fact that the population of the United States is four or five times as large as that of Brazil. It seems most ludicrous to the stranger to hear a man and his wife address each other as cousins, as they generally do when such was their relationship. In many cases not only was the union of the parents consanguineous, but also that of the grandparents, and;in some cases even further back. Surely this has its effect on the intellect of their' offspring, though not so marked and invariable as one might naturally suppose. For some of the children are apparently as intelligent as those of people not related by blood. But this' proves nothing unless it is their good fortune, and even these probably pay me penalty in some other way. The people of Brazil are by nd aieans intelligent as a race generally,' but this is chiefly due in part to the. t J -1 x u. aunuuuu ui uuuua.j.iuuiii muuiues; lut lb is no easy matter for the poor people in any part of the country to acquire sven the rudiments of an education, and for those- outside of the towns it is virtually impossible. Probably to consanguineous marriages are due not only some loss of intellectual power, but also the facts that the people are, as a rule, homely,. Bxceedingly nervous, and not vigorous, though these conclusions may be quali-fiable, for the lack of vigor may be due partly to the climate and their lazy, inactive lives, and their nervousness may be attributable to the quantity of strong coffee they all drink from early childhood, and the habit of excessive smok ing; amongst the men and boys. The features of the white people are, for the most part, irregular. Generally they have coal-black hair and beautiful black eyes. Sometimes the teeth are very fine, and the hands of those of the best .families are beauti fully soft and very flexible, a most natural sequence, as these people, having many slaves, never perform any work themselves, nor have their immediate ancestors before them, to impair their delicacy. But whatever beauty they do possess will frequently be marred by ugly skins, noses, mouths or other features, whilst the face may lack a cultivated, rehned expression, which gives place to the sensual. But this i3 no invariable rule, for some are handsome, intelligent andrefined-looking. Brooklyn Magazine. Strictly Private Families. A lady advertised for board in a strictly private family. She received two hundred and fifty-five answers by actual count. She was able to respond to only thirty or forty. Following was the dialogue in each case: "Do you have a strictly private family?""O, yes, indeed." "How many persons have you in your house r "Twenty, ma'a'm." "Twenty, and yet you say you have a private ianniyr ' "Yes, ma'a'in," with an air of in jur, ed pride, "but they are all friends of mine, who board with me. Merchant Traveler. F. Carroll Brewster, an eminent Philadelphia lawyer, in a recent letter. says: "ror ten years to come no man should dream of studying law unless he' sees directly before him a certain open ing as partner, helper or successor to an: established and lucrative practice. " The main building of the New Or leans Exposition was put up at auction the other day. it cost over half million dollars, but the highest bid re ceived was $9,o&u. fl. v, Times. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. The trustees of Columbia College at a recent meeting decided to admit in future to their association women on exactly the same footing as men. N. X. lrioune. Harvard is still the larffest collea-e in the country; Oberlin conies second. and Columbia lias fallen to third place; Michigan is fourth, and Yale fifth. Liucago Inter Ocean. Julia Foot, a colored cvans-elist. has been conducting revival meeting's in Denver. She is described as a good preacher, with strong, full voice and considerable natural ability. Oscar H. Cooper, who has been chosen State Superintendent it Public Instruction in Texas, is only twenty-eight years of age. lie is a graduate of Yale College. Chicago Mail. About one-fifth of the nonulatlon of Philadelphia Ls in the Sunday-school. There are in the. city 650 Sundav- schools, with an attendance of 186,835 scholars and over 16,000teachers.--Philadclnhia Press. The total receipts of the Methodist Missionary Society during the first six months of the present fiscal year, from November 1 to April 30, 1886, were $462,746.72. This is an increase over the corresponding six months of the previous year of $83,617.04. The Interior.The colored Methodists have now the largest church in Washington. Il is on M street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, northwest, in a fash ionable neighborhood. It cost $116.- 000, of which all but $40,000 has been raised, and seats 2,800 psople. Wash ington Post. In the State of Iowa there are 254 Congregational churches; thev have 217 ministers, 18,223 members", 26,079 in . the Sunday-schools: they have church property valued at $855,480, ana parsonages at $b8,700. They pay their pastors $132,600, and for benevo lent purposes gave last year over $33,- 000. Iowa Slate Register. The Presbyterian General Assem bly has decided to hold the one hun dredth lienerai Assembly at Phila.iul phia in 1888, and to make the second Thursday of the session a day of jubilee in the churches all over the world. It has also been decided to raise a cen tenary fund of $5,000,000 for the bene- nt of the various church enterprises. Christian at Work. The pastor of the colored church atFort Gaines, Ga., succeeded in having the church debt liquidated in a very novel manner, xne members had bound themselves under a promise to pay it, and a few Sundays ago the pastor informed them that if they did not pay it at once he would turn them out of church for lying. The next Sun day each member of tho congregation brought $1.50, and the debt was paid Chicago Times. A case involving the right of cities in Georgia to collect taxes upon church property has been decided in favor of the churches by the Supreme Court of that State. It was a suit of the city of Atlanta to collect the assessment for street-paving from the churches thus k..nt-J tuc.,., rr 1 j - that public policy required the encour agement of church work and that the congregation were not subject to tax ation, no matter under what guise it was sought to be collocted. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. "Isn't it heavenly?" ejaculated Miss Uush in reference to Miss Pedal s per formance on the piano. "Yes," replied Fogg, "it is indeed heavenly. It sounds like thunder. aoston Transcript. The Salvation Army at Washington has converted a dude. He can already pronounce the letter R, and next week will venture forth for the first timo without a cane. Philadelphia Call. The writer of the new song, Love You, Darling, in My Dreams," should not forget that dreams go by contraries. Little mistakes like this sometimes produce a discord. Wash mqton Critic. "It is about time to cry halt on slantr11 ahnnta t.lin Pif.thnro-li 7Vp- grapi. You bet. It's time slang had Elaycd out. let s all give it the grand ounce knock it higher'n a kite, as it were. Nomstown Herald. Adoring grandmother "Isn't he a lovely chiidr Jaim visitor "xes he's a nice little baby." Adoring grandmother "And so intelligent! He just lies there all day and breathes, and breathes, and breathes. ban iran-cisco News-Letter. "Well you are a nice sort of fellow, anyway," said a somewhat persistent lawyer to a witness who had proved rather a "dry milker" to his diligent cross-examination. "I would say as much of you, sir," retorted the witness, "if I were under oath." Peck's Sun. Wife(Sunday night) "Where have you been, John?" Husband "Been t' sacred concert listening to (hie) sacred music." Wife (sarcastically) "Yes, and drinking sacred beer and whisky, and smoking sacred cigars. If there are saints on this earth, John Smith, you are one of them." Life. "Mary Ann, what was you sitting up last night reading? Was it a novel? Tell your mother. "Yes, it was a novel." "An' who writ it?" "Dumas the Elder.". "Now, don't tell me that. Who ever heard of an elder writin' a novel that you'd sit up half the night and read." N. Y. Independent. "Pretty? No, I won't say baby is nretty," declared a young mother, "for t can speak of him impartially, even though he is my own, and that's more than most mothers can do. He has lovely blue eyes, perfect in shape; hair like the morning sunshine; mouth well, no rosebud could be sweeter; somplexion divinely fair; nose just too sunning for any thing; in fact, he's faultless. But I won't say he's pretty." Harper's Bazar. AT THE AUCTION. Veracious Account of a Meeting Between Sinarty and the Auctioneer. And it came to pass after the going down of the sun that young Smarty was passing the mart where a certain man cried out in a loud voice; "Two im I offered; do I hear two and a half?" "Aha!" cried young Smarty, turning to the companions who attended him. "behold! the auctioneer. Let us enter in, and mark howl will paralyze him." So entered they in. And still the voice of the auctioneer was lifted up: "And a haf'n a haf'n a haf'n a ha'f. Anybody say three-quarters?" Three-quartejs said they not. "Prythee, sir," said young Smarty, "will you allow me to make a bid?" For Smarty, the juvenile, had read in the chronicles how a man had once propounded that query to an auctioneer who stood in the market place, and on his replying; "Yea, verily." he said; "Then I bid you good night." As the ox goeth to the slaughter, so marched Smarty up to the very front of the auctioneer. Will you allow me to make a bid?" Up spake the auctioneer, who was fly with regard to the ways of the un- godly: "io, I will not. I never take bids ffom children and fools." Then the people laughed Smarty to corn and he slunk away, sorrowing. Texas Sitings. A SORRY POLITICIAN. General Hancock's Unfortunate Position In 1876, so Universally Upheld by the Democracy. At the recent meeting of the Military Service Institution a letter was read from Secretary Bayard warmly eulo gizing the stand General Hancock took in the Hayes-Tilden contest of 1876. Referring to the remarkable letter Hancock sent to General Sherman in December of that year, Mr. Bayard says "that no wiser, abler, or more patriotic deliverance; no sounder con ception oi constitutional duty and function can be found in the history of that period than is contained in the letter of General Hancock." This may be the accepted Democratic view of tho epistle in question, but there are a great many neonle who hold thn hio-h- est respect for the military services of General Hancock who are nevertheless compelled to believe that in December, 1876, he did injustice to his record as a poldier and proved himself an indifferent, if not adano-er-ous, politician. It is one of the singular inconsistencies of Hancock's career that while in the field he yielded the most implicit obedience to orders, yet, after being smitten w ith the Presidential fever, ho was inclined to question the authority of his superior officers whenever he thought their demands ran counter to the interests of the Democratic party. This was shown when he was sent to New Orleans charged with the enforcement of the reconstruction acts of Congress, but proceeded to. neglect and nullify his orders to such an extent that he had to be changed from that command. The same disposition was illustrated in the letter written in December, 1876. Hancock's letter to Sherman was merely a notification that he (Hancock) would do every thing in his power as a Major-General in the regular army to secure the inauguration of Tilden as President. The document can not be construed as having any other . meaning. Referring to the Electoral count, he said: "If a failure to agree arises between the two bodies there can be no lawful affirmative decision that the people have elected a President, and the House must then proceed to act, not the Senate." Again he said: "That machinery would probably elect Mr. Tilden President and Mr. Wheeler Vice-President" The inauguration of Tilden was the only solution Hancock would recognize, and he proposed to use his power as an army officer to secure that result. He declared emphatically that General Grant's authority as President and Commander-in-Chief would terminate March 3, and even asserted that the Secretary of War would not holdover. He admitted, that Sherman would continue as General of the army on and after March 4, but immediately added: "Should the military authorities be invoked it is necessary in such great crises for the superior officers of the army, and especially for those near the head of it, to dare to determiae for themselves what is lawful and what is not lawful under our system." - Thus Hancock, who had been exalted by the Democratic party for his supposed doctrine that the military must be kept subordinate to the civil power, announced that he would defy the orders of his superior officers and the authority of Congress and determine for himself what he thought right. It is fortunate for General Hancock's fame that he had no opportunity to carry out his revolutionary doctrines In 1876. General Grant understood Hancock's position thoroughly, and was prepared to deal with him or any other rebellious officers of the army in a very effective manner. In view of the emergency then existing Grant held that his duty extended to the inauguration of his successor, and he would have seen to it that the candidate declared elected, whether Tilden or Hayes, was installed. Incidentally he would have taken steps to see that the subordinate officers of the army obeyed their orders. Hancock was a-gallant soldier, but a sorry politician, and his friends do no kindness to his memory by recalling the fact. In attemntinfr to servn thn Tlpmnoi-otin party he at one time announced the uiuaii exuaoriuuary aooennes as to the supremacy of the civil power, even in rebellious States. arwl at nnnthor claimed the right as a military com- uiauuer io sei me decisions. of civil tribunals aside and determine his course lor himself. Chicago Tribune. A Knock-Down Blow. The statements made by Mr. His-cock during the discussion of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill in the House of Representatives' committee of the whole, relating to Government expenditures and estimated revenue, was calculated to startle the self-.tyled revenue reformers. The figures submitted by him were obtained from all available sources, including the Treasury Department and the flDnrnnriatinn bills now passed and pending. Without gmiig them here in detail, it may Receipts, $330,000,000; expenditures, $344,767,000; deficiency over 14.000.- 000. Here is ample confirmation of the charge repeatedly made that the purpose of the Democratic leaders is to make as good a showing as possible lor themselves, with a view of influ encing the elections this year, leaving out of sight as far as possible the fact that, under their management, the cost of maintaining the Government will be enormously in excess of appearances, involving the necessity of future appropriations to meet an inevitable deficit. This is a character istic performance, which has been again and again repeated with varying euecu in nis estimate lor isa JSlr. Morrison, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, sought to show that there would be a surplus, but Mr. Hiscock's presentment makes the appropriations exceed Mr. Morrison's calculations by about $85,000,000. Troy (iv. x.) Times. BgThe representatives of the Grand Army of the Republic who were treated so rudely by Mr. Morrison when they asked for a conference with him in relation to a bill proposing to provide, at trie nations! expense, for Union sol diers now m the poor-houses and charitable institutions of the country are likely to demand an explanation of his conduct. Mr. Morrison s manner was. the Grand Army Committee say, absolutely insulting. The gentlemen rep resented, however, a much larger con stituency than he, an organization of from 300,000 to 400,000 citizens of the United States. Had they been a committee of British manufacturers Mr. Morrison might have welcomed them into the Ways and Means Committee-room and listened to their petitions all day. Philadelphia Press. JST'General Black, Commissioner of Pension?, intends visiting the Pacific coast this summer. Could not Minneapolis induce him to come as an "exhibit" to the Exposition? He would be well worth his floor space. A "complete physical wreck" that has yet energy enough left in its shattered remains to preside over the Pension Department, and audacity enough to go on at the same time drawing a pension itself for being incapacitated for doing any thing, is a curiosity which ousht to draw. MinnewoUs Tribune. THAT NATIONAL SCANDAL. No Possible Excuse for the Attempted Theft of the "Buckeye" State by the Democracy. The erstwhile steady-going capital of Ohio is bidding high for notoriety. During the winter and spring Columbus was the only State capital having a sensation factory in operation. The news from Albany and the few other, capitals where legislation was in progress would be tame and flat, while the namesake of the great discoverer could be counted upon with reasonable certainty to rival, if not surpass, the national capital in supplying spice for the breakfast table. The Legislature has now passed into the limbo of the has-beens, but the capitol still stands and the factory still runs. Tho latBst output of news is fully up to the Co- lumuus stanuara oi spicy reading. ii general intelligence Irom the outside world penetrates the thick walls mr. Joseph j. Mackin's cell, he must be ETeen with enw. His fino work in Chicago, for which he was awarded free transDortatinn to .Tnliot was the coarsest bungle, the simplest crudity, as compared with the forgery just reported from Ohio's capital. The fenerai iaci in tne case was very well nown before, namely, that the Columbus tally-sheets, after last fall's election, and pending the count, were so altered as to change 208 to 508. Ol course to change the footing involved only the alteration of onp ficm m to make the details of the tallies justify me ioonn? was the run. ' ' hat. th i task was actually accomplished was ioug ago esiaonsned. .But now the hero of it all is comino- to lio-ht It seems that the papers were takes Saturday night to the penitentiary, which is located at the capital, and an expert iorger set to work at the alterations necessary. To guard against interruptions, the work was done in the insane ward of thn hnsnitai Ma v,qh that night and Sunday to work in. The fellow was promised a pardon as his rewara. it is almost superfluous to add that he was cheated out of his pay. Governor Hoadly is a very bitter Dem ocrat, but an honest man. The report says tnac the warden of the peniteu tiary was not in the secret. If that bs so then the management mnst hnvn been very loose. But, however that may nave been, the evidence is said trt ue ampie mat tae iorgery was dono within these walls, and was an important part of the general conspiracy to steal the Legislature, and with it tho seat in the United States Senate occu pied by John Sherman. It mav be set down as a fixed fact that whoever the tools may have been the coal-oil go-an furnished the boodle. - There should be no trifling with a matter so serious as this. Sir Henry Maim? contends that if this Republic survives and nrosners it will hn tha first really successful experiment at self guvermueni, ana ne mignt nave added that its chief peril in these days is from practical aeniai oi tne right of suffrage. .... .i ...... .ivi..,i uu. UdllUK box stuffer pleads the clannishness and ignorance of the negro as his excuse, but such frauds as were perpetrated in Cincinnati and Columbus last fall are without the least shadow of an excuse. To allow that sort of crime to go unpunished would be to invite the overthrow of the Government by under' minin.p- its foundation. The Southern rebellion was indeed, as General Locan hrino-a nnt. an mn. spicuously in his book, "The Great r i , . .. .... conspiracy, dui it was also the inev itable OUt?rOWth Of a svst.p.m nf lahnr a class of property which the conspira A I J t . , rx. . ii . . . wrs nan lnneniea. ne unio conspiracy, however, can not be said to have roots of growth in the common soil. It was a plot having its origin solely in the unscrupulous determination of a clique to control the politics of Ohio, by foul means, if not by fair, by brib ery ana iorgery n necessary, in pursuance of that policy , George H. Pen dleton was driven from the Senate and into virtual exne, and Judge Thurman cast into outer darkness, deprived oi participation in the long-delayed triumph of his party. , Not content with seizing the Democracy, with all : t i. i , i us ucioiigiugs, tne conspirators resolved to capture the State, and de- iraua tne majority out oi their fairly- earned victory at the polls. Herein they overreached. So lonar as the on erations were confined within party limits the general public looked on without taking a hand in the contest. But when it comes to tampering with returns and practicing crime against the State it ia hio-h timn t.n fpat. tho virtues of that whip of scorpions which jjisuue is supposed to carry ior use in exireuie cases. unicago irner ucean. REPUBLICAN BRIEFS. JJGeneral Butler strikes the dodu- lar heart when he says there is a demand for a strong foreign policy. The ieenng is growing every day. Daven pert Gazette. S-It is rather humiliating to have Mexico complain of the nia-srardlv do! iev of this Govprnmpnt in T-po-ai-fl tr,tl.a carriage of the mails, yet tnis is what has resulted from the "reforms" of Secretary Vilas. It is the unhappy lot oi tne present Administration to economize in the only department of the public service where economy was not needed. ban n rancisco Chronicle. JIThere is an epidemic of lying amorfg Democratic papers about the Maine Republicans. The nomination of J. R. Bodwell for Governor, on the first ballot, by a more than four-fifths vote, gives a quietus to their falsehoods regarding dissentions in the Republican ranks. September will show an old- time Republican majority in the Pino tree state, and the slogan for November w 11 be: 4'As goes Maine, so goes the Union." Toledo Blade. JJMr. Randall, or any one like him, would be "snowed under" by the ballots of a Presidential election. It would be hard to pick out a decent Republican who would not beat him so badly that his nomination would seem like ancient nistory in a month after election. We don't expect to persuade Mr. Randall of this fact, but if there fere any thoughtless Democrats who are inclined to side with hsn, they would do well to reflect upon it before it is too lata. iv. x. Times. S& Many a brave and worthy soldier strugs.fid through the war with out giving up, only to die at th end of the war, or to carry with him ihe disabilities that he received, without a murmur. And now, because such a man has no "hospital record," and was too proud and patriotic to make complaint or give up, it is ruled by the President that he will veto the olaiuis of all such, by which means he expects io maKe capital ior nimseu as a "reformer." Indianapolis Journal. i"In the palmy days of the Democratic party the platforms denounced the veto power. Uld-fashioned Democrats regarded the veto as an instru ment of tyranny, and this prerogative of the Executive was to be used only in cases where the constitutionality of a measure was in question. Mr. Cleve- iana departs as widely as possible from the old rule. . He goes so far as to overrule the people who make a de mand, and Congress as well, in the matter of the construction of public buildings. This is trying in itself to tho old-school Democrats, but the language used makes the veto little more than an impertinence. Chicagt inter wean. CONGRESSIONAL. Bbkatb, June 24. After routine morninw business the Senate took up the bill providing for the appointment and compensation! of a United States District Judge for thaj Northern district of Alabama. Mr. Loean moved as an amendment the provision of aj bill heretofore passed by the Senate fixing-all district iuds-es salarfea at n.in a vpar.i The amendment wffs agreed to, and the bill un)uue wbb pwseuu. j.ne oui repealing?, the pre-emption and timber culture laws was1; then taken up and passed veas 34, nays 20.1 The Fltz-John Porter bill was laid before the Senate and Mr. Sewell made a speech in sujv.1 port of the measure. Mr. Ixivau obtained! the floor to reply to Mr. Sewell, when tliei Senate went into executive session and soom arter adjourned. j House. The morninv hour was dianensmt1 with, and the House went into Cotnmitee of the Whole on thehundry Civil bill, consider-l ation of which occup'ed the entire day.' When the committee rose the House ad-! journed. . ; Sesate. June 25. The Fitz-John Portr billi was taken up and Mr. Logan made a lengthy1 speech in opposition to the measure, main-. tafnlng that Porter disobeyed orders and thereby jeopardized the success of theTJnion. armies, tie also ODJectea to the bill on constitutional grounds. Mr. Plumb, of Kansas,1, and several other Senators participated in' the debate, and after a number of amendments had been offered and voted down the bill was brought to a vote and i-ased-yeaa , 30, nays 17. Having already pasil the House the bill now goes to the President for his Signature. Adjourned until the 28th. House. The Speaker laid before the House " the various veto messages transmitted b the President, which were read and appro-' Innw5iy reierrea. a joint resolution was' passed appointing General William J. Sewell, of New Jersey, General Martin T. McMahon, of New York, and Captain J. L. Mitchell, of Wisconsin, to fill vacancies on the board of managers of the national homes for disabled veterans. In Committee of the Whole tho nouse resumed consmeration of the Sundry Civil bill. When the committee rose the House took a recess until evening, which was devoted to the consideration of pension bills. Senate, June 26. The Senate was not In session. House. Mr. Crisp, of Geororia. submitted the conference report on the bill requiring the land grant railroads to pay the cost of selecting, conveying and surveying their lands. (As the bill originallv passed tho House it applied only to the Union Pacific system, but as amended by the Senate and agreed to by the conference committees its provisions are extended to all land grant roads.) The report was adopted. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, consideration of which occupied the remainder of the day, about half of the bill being com- Sieiea wnen tne committee rose and the .ouse adjourned. Senate, June 28. The Chair laid before the Senate resolutions of the City Council and Board of Trade of Zanesville, asking the passage of the bill for a public building in Zanesville. nnrwithRtanHinv fh Pm.i. dent's veto; also several memorials in favor in ine oui taxing oleomargarine. Tho bill granting a pension of flOU per month to Emily J. Stannari, widow of General Stannard, of Vermont, was passed. The' report of the conforence committee on the Post-office Approriation bill was laid before the Senate, the committee stating that it was unable to agree (the question being upon the subsidy provision. A motion by Mr. Plumb that the Senate ins st on its amendment was agreed to yeas 33, navs 13. After an executive session the Senate adjourned. House. tinder the call of States a number of ollls, etc., were introduced and referred, among them one by Mr. Bandar,, of Pennsylvania, to reduoe and equalize duties on imports, to reduce internal revenue taxes and to modify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenue. The House then went into Committee ol the Whole and resumed consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Without reaching a conclusion on the bill the committee rose and the House adjourned. Senate, June 29. The Benate resumed consideration of the bill to quit titles of settlers on the Des Moines lands and after arguments by Mr. Evarts in support of the veto and by Mr. Allison and Mr. Wilson in favor of the bill, it was passed over the President's veto by the requisite two-thirds majority-yeas 34, nays 15. Mr. Plumb submitted the conference report on the Armv Appropriation bill which was agreed to. The bill now appropriates $150,000 less than it did as It passed the House. The joint resolution appointing General William J. Sewell, of New Jersey, General Martin T McMahon, of New York, and Captain John h. Mitchell, of Wisconsin, managers of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers, to fill vacancies, was passed- The Senate then proceeded to consider the bill making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Government, but without action adjourned.House. Mr. Burnes, of Missouri, reported the General Deficiency bill, and it was referred to the Committee of the Whole; (it appropriates $6,062,845.) Reports of conference committees on the Pension Appropriation bUl, the Army Appropriation bill, aud the Agricultural Appropriation bill were submitted and agreed to. The House then went Into Committee of the Whole on the Sundry C vil Appropriation bill, consideration- of which was continued until adjournment. WRITTEN SPEECHES. ,. A Class of Legislators Whose Oratorical Efforts Would Not Be Hissed. There is a form" of discussion that goes on in the House which deserves due reprobation and that is the reading of written speeches. A vast deal of time is consumed to no business put-pose. These things are almost entirely for home consumption. They usually begin at the origin of human affairs, and are full to repletion with that kind of knowledge which takes it for granted that the reader's mind is a blank on the subject. I say "reader's" as it is very seldom that this kind of an oration has any hearers, for when a member pulls out a pile of manuscript the action,, except in rare instances, is regarded as an invitation to the rest of the members to mind their own business, whichthey immediately proceed with one accord to do with all their might. It may be added as a curious fact in natural history that many a member who has passed a whole hour in reading what nobody has listened to will beg with pathetic fervor and insistence for another five or ten minutes in which to render himself hoarse by reading what he has full liberty to print Perhaps it is because, his eyes filled with his own handwriting, and his ears soothed and charmed by the mellifluence of his own voice, his soul transcends the unworthy House and seems to be pouring itseif into the ears of the whole population of the country, variously estimated at from 55,000,000 to 58,000,000. Some day or other the natural historian of the race will take philosophic recognizance of this phenomenon, and to him this solution is timidly but respectfully offered. But the Congressman is not entirely to be blamed. In fact, perhaps he is not to be blamed at all. It is only a supply which answers a demand. The fault probably lies with the American people who unreasonably demand that their legislators shall be orators, and shall prove that they are such by visible results. If they only realized how much time was wasted in such efforts, and how little attention was paid to them, they would measure the virtues of their members by other and truer standards. Hon. T. B. Reed, in Chautauquan. THE SUWANEE. " Romance of the Dark Hirer Known as tho Penobscot of Florida. Once over the bar at its entrance from the Gulf the Suwanee river holds its way with a deep current, in places of forty feet, far up through the forest of the best hard pine in the State. It is the Penobscot of Florida. It ias some good land upon it where plantations have heretofore been made but after awhile generally abandoned. The mosquitoes and malaria guard in the main entrance against others than lumbermen, anglers, and intrusive tourists. This dark river has, too, its romance as being the place which gave rise to a melody which, like "Sweet Home," the affections of the heart will never let go. For it was here that a French family in the time of Louis XIV. came over and settled upon the Suwanee and made a plantation. After awhile the father and mother and all died save one daughter, who, disheartened and desolate, returned to France and there wrote, adopting in part the negro dialect, which she had been familiar with on the plantation in her girlhood, a feeling tribute to the "old Folks at home" in their graves iu thfl far off country. Interior.

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You tyrannize over men; And your beauty rare makes us all despair;But your beauty -will fade What then? My Lady Disdain, my Lady Disdain, Vou're lovely, anti gay and young, I agree in sootb there is naught like youth. As poets have often sung; But the years go by as the swallows fly With swiftness beyond our ken. You are radiant now with your white, smooth brow; But the wrinkles will oome What then? My Lady Dlsda'n, my Lady Disdain, You've servants at call and beck, And jewels most rare gleam amid your hair Or sparkle upqn your ne"k. You have w ealth at hand that you may command By dlpp:ng a golden pen, And an income line, that 1 wish was mine; But your father may fail W hat then? Rambler. THE DIAMOND DOLLAR. Which Illustrated the TJpa and Downs of Journalism. , "Worst thing in the world for weak eyes, young woman." 1 The young woman looked up from the magazine in hfcr lap and smiled at her gray-bearded mentor on the opposite side of the street car. She smiled with her whole face dimpled chin, red cheeks, full lips; even the eyes behind the convex glasses of her princenez twinkled. "Thank you," she said, shutting the book softly, "I know it. I was merely glancing at the pictures." Then she turned her amused glance toward the front part of the car, and met the eyes of the driver staring straight at her. His face . lighted up when her glance met his, and with his rough glove he patted the left side of his coat, as though it shielded something which concerned her. The car was one of those little-wheeled boxes locally known as- the "Pound Gap Bobtails," which ply between Cincinnati and its Kentucky suburb, Newport. The driver, sole autocrat, dividing his time among the mules, the passengers and the small boys who everywhere mark bobtail cars for their own, was muffled to the mouth in an old oil-skin coat, belted at the waist with a leather strap. His cap was pulled down to shield his face from the rain, into the teeth of which he was forced to drive, and when he entered the car to collect the fares his heavy cowhide boots completed a grotesque picture. which would have attracted attention even in Castle Garden. Evidently he cared less for style than for comfort. "What is the fare to Newport?" .iT 1.. 111 I started at the musical voice, and looked at the man closely. "Wh-a-a-t?" I said, "not Ferguson, of the Gazetted "Same party, dear boy, same party," He laughed in the honest, whole-souled way that I knew so well, rang the bell of his punch twice, smiled at the pretty girl, who seemod to enjoy my supnse, and then clattered out to his place at the brake, where I present- lv Ininpfl him "This is rough, Ferguson, deuced rough twelve dollars a week and seventeen hours a day! Can't you do better than this?" "Classical occupation, dear boy. One of the children of Greek mythology, you will remember, aspired to drive a car his father's car, but while his route was a trifle dryer than mine"- "It was not necessary to make a guy of himself in cow-hide boots. Thatgirl inside is laughing at you." "1 know it. Shi' always does when she ridee with m " He looked tin eh the glass door of the car, and ag n patted the side of his coat when La met the young woman's eyes. The gesture seemed to please her. . "Another case of the maiden and the coachman," remarked Ferguson, as he slowed up to take on a passenger. Evidently heiiad lost none of his high spirits since he had drifted out of journalism into the street-carservice. "But seriously now, don't you know her?" "No, I can not say that Ido," I said, evercly. "That's Virginia." t looked again at the girl. She was as charming a specimen of young womanhood as is often met with even in the cultured parts of Kentucky. The infantile cheeks and dimpled chin toned down the severity of her eyeglasses, and from the brown plume in her hat to the narrow toe of her shoe she was what is popularly known as "stylish." Du Maurier might have copied her pose for that of one of his high-bred women. "Yes, shythat's Virginia. You have laughed at my verses to her three years, and if we drop all the passengers before the end of the route is reached. I will take you inside arid present you. She knows you by name already. I have talked with her about you a hundred times. She likes that little story of yours, 'The Cruise of the Mermaid,1 immensely, and always looks up your column tho first thing in the Clarion.'1'' Then he seemed to drift into another line of thought. "Yes, sir, it is rough," he said, "eighteen hours a day, seven days in the week, is too manv hours for a man to work; but, thank God, I am done! This is my last trip. I have something here" he tapped the left side of his oil-skin coat, again "which has put me on my feet. Virginia and I had several blocks, alone, together, this morning, and she knows. That's what wo are so gay about. You remember that 'Diamond Dollar?' " Did I remember it? It was that "Diamond Dollar" that cost Ferguson his desk on the Gazette. Not more than two months ago he was as dapper, well-dressed and apparently successful a man as there was in the Cincinnati roportorial fraternity. His duty was tho covering of the news along the river fronts of the Kentucky towns facing and above Cincinnati, and, being a graceful writer, he managed to get in a column or two of breezy special matter on miscellaneous subjects each week every column of such matter being a clean addition of five dollars to his not princely salary. It was nine o'clock one Thursday night when word came over the tele- phono wires from the hre chieftain s office that the tow-boat Ohio Greyhound was burning at her landing, three miles Dove JNewport. in nfteen minutes finme the supplementary report that her entire tow of seven barges was doomed, and that John Stacy and "Stumpy," the cook, were missing presumably burned with the wreck. "Ferguson can have two columns for that," complacently remarked the city editor. "Here, Newport, get a rig; jump out there; find Ferguson and help him. Get in as much as possible before twelve, and, if it promises good matter after that, wire the facts. We will dress them up." . At navi-pasi rweive o ciock i was again at the office with the skeleton article. The fire had taken place early in the afternoon. Three lives and $65,-,000 worth of property were lost. I bad jioea nothing of Ferguson. But while this effect Ferguson strolled into the office. Ho was at peace with himself and the world, and his stiff, white collar lifted itself immaculately above his black tie and unruffled shirt front. 'Nothing moving," he said, airily, as he placed the day's report on the editor sdesk. "Every thing dead along the river to-day." "No fights nor fires?" asked the city editor in his blandest tones. "Nothing; but here is a little special that will look well in the Sunday supplement. I have been up to thelrsrary looking up points for it all afternoon. With a scare head first line. 'The Diamond Dollar!' it will prove as good matter as actual news, and " "There is no actual news, then?" "Nothing of importance." By this time the telegraph men, the managing editor, half of the local force, and even one or two of the brevier writers, had drifted into the city room, wheie they floated about aimlessly, waiting for the explosion that was to lift the unfortunate Ferguson. But, suspecting nothing, he continued his panegyric on the Diamond Dollar. "Unless you call this piece of special matter news, there is none. But it will be news to most of the readers. It deals with the subject of rare coins, giving the dates and the values of all United States coins worth more than their face value. There are hundreds of pieces in daily circulation for which collectors would give twenty times their value as bullion. This article will serve to tell the people what date! of coin are in demand, so that they may watch the money that passes through their hands and sell the rare coins at a premium. There is one dollar, of the mintage of 1804, which it worth $.300." For the past few seconds the city editor had been rapidly writing upon a slip of paper, and here he interrupted enthusiastic remarks about the valuable dollar. "You know the rule of the office, Mr. Ferguson," he said, in an icy tone; "no man with us gets a chance to be grossly scooped twice. You have failed to catch one of the most sensational tires of the year, -although you had twelve hours in which to do it. Here is an order on the counting room for your money up to Saturday night You have my best wishes for your future. Good night!" That was how he lost his desk on the Gazette, and, breezy writer that he was, in three months he had found it necessary to take up the lines of a street-cai driver's life or starve. "You remember that Diamond Dollar?" he said again, after answering the sharp clang of the bell above his head by bringing the car to a stop long enough for the gray-bearded talker to alight: "well, curiously enough, I have found one of them. I should never have known its value had I not collected tho data for that unfortunate article of mine; and " 1 "Do you mean me to understand that you have found a dollar of 1804, actually worth $500 ? ".Precisely so, dear boy. Drivers handle a great deal of silver, and amongthe money in my pocket last night I found this." He had unbuckled his belt, unbuttoned his coat, and with some difficulty brought out in his gloved fingers a worn silver dollar, without the milled edges which characterize the late issues of the coin. He was singularly excited. He looked at the piece of silver as a a doomed man might look at an unexpected reprieve." It meant another start in life, a chance to build up wealth and reputation on ajournal of his own; it meant a wife; it gave him Virginia. His hand trembled slightly with the tumult of his thoughts. One of the car's front wheels, struck a stone, jumped the track, and for afew seconds the vehicle jolted violently over the cobble-stones. Ferguson's face suddenly turned to the color of ashes. He leaped over the dash-board surrounding the platform, groped in the mud under the car wheels, and then, with his lips set tightly together, handed me a battered and bent piece of silver. I was the diamond dollar. It had slippod from his uncertain grasp, and the sharp flanges of the car-wheelj had ground the date and figures frm its face and bent it almost out of resemblance of a coin. Then Ferguson took up the lines again, and from his present prospects the people who ride behind him will con tinue to laugh at his old dress and asso ciate him in their minds with the mules he drives for months, or Derhatjs vears. to come. He knows that there are half a dozen morals to be extracted from his little story, and has given me permission to publish it Cincinnati Enquirer. LINCOLN MEMORIALS. Furniture and Books from the Old Spring field House and Law-Office. John W. Keyes, formerly of Spring field, 111., but now of this city, has fitted up a room which he calls the "Lincoln Memorial Room." All of the furniture was used by Abraham Lincoln, either in his house or his law- office in Springfield ' prior to his de parture for Washington, D. C, to be inaugurated President of the United States. In the collection there is the old office desk and book-case, the old inkstand, ten well-thumbed law-books; one volume of the statues of Indiana. the first law-book that Lincoln ever read, and which belonged to David Furnham, his friend and companion in Indiana from 1819 to 1831; one leaf from his exercise-book and his boyhood signature; six hair-cloth parlor chairs; one marble-top table; one mirror set ma gilt frame; one hearthrug; one walnut cupboard; the old mahogany-veneeited sofa which was made by hand at Springfield in 1837 by Daniel E. Ruckel, on Mr. Lincoln s order, and used by him until February, 1861; the old hickory chair in which he was seated when informed of his nomi nation to the Presidency: one carriage cushion and a photograph taken of him in JMay, 18o8, during the celebrated campaign between him and Stephen A. Douglas. The photograph represents him with his hair very much rumpled, and the story in connection therewith is to the effect that when in the photographer's studio one of his friends observed that his hair was combed remarkably smooth. "That's a fact," he replied, "and the picture won't look like me." With that he ran his hand through his hair and made it look natural. Mr. Keyes only began his purchases some months back and has already gotten together a creditable collection, which he takes great pleasure in ex hibiting to his friends. Several letters from William H. Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, attest the genuineness of a number of the articles. Chicago lrioune. George Holyland, of Fork, Md., was shearing a sheep the other day, when the animal kicked and drove one of the blades of the sharp shears into George's abdomen, inflicting a wound from which he soon died. A dead shark was washed ashore in Charleston the other day. The lawyers, after weeping over it, buried it with all the honors due ton member of the bar. Philadelphia Herald. An exchange gravely inquires "Why will men lie?" Because men will go nsning. Chicago Journal. FALSE PROPHETS. A Profession Very Popular Among: the Men and Women of the Last Century. The last century was prolific of false prophets. Jane Wardlaw, the wife of a tailor at Bolton le Moors, Lancashire, started the delusion that Christ's second advent was at hand, and that He would appear in the form of a woman. Shortly afterward Ann Lee, wife of a blacksmith, living in Toad lane, Manchester, adopted the views of Jane Wardlaw, but went far beyond them, and became known as the mother of the sect who now began to be called Shakers, because they made a strange kind of dancing one element of their worship. Ann Lee (whose husband's name was Stanley) had been a Quaker, but her new doctrine had no connection with her previous convictions. She professed to see visions, and in 1770 she declared that the Lord Jesus had appeared to her one night and had become one with her, so that whatever she said or did was Hissayingor doing. Her claim was to be the bride of the Lamb, as seen by St. John, but her pretensions met with little acceptance in England, and she was inspired to seek a new home in America. To New York she went in 1794, accompanied by seven disciples and by her husband, who soon separated from her, for now arose a new tenet the necessity of celibacy. This doctrine not commending itself to the citizens of New York, Ann Lee went out into the wilderness of Nis-kenna and founded the settlement of Water Vilet, which still exists. She made herself very obnoxious to the American Government, was arrested as a British spy, and thrown into prison. Persecution increased her notoriety, and she became known as the "female Christ." She died in 1783, but her followers protested that she was not dead, only "withdrawn from sight. Joanna boutheott was born in Devon shire about 1750. She spent her young days as a domestic servant, but in the middle of life took to uttering prophecies couched in coarse and uncouth prose or verse. She found followers in Exeter, but soon went up to London, where she obtained a wider field for the exercise of her talents. She drew her inspiration, like others of her kind, from the Apocalypse, and made a con siderable income by the sale of seals, which were warranted to insure the salvation of those who purchased them. In the year of 1814, being then over sixty years of age, she gave out that she was the divinely-appointed mother of the Shiloh, and that his birth on the ensuing 14th of October would be the 3econd coming of Christ. Her adherents then numbered about 100,000, and they provided a magnificent cradle for the expected infant. A crowd assembled at the predicted midnight, and only dispersed when they were informed that Mrs. Southcott had fallen into a trance. On the 27th of December following she died. Her followers refused to believe that she was dead, and woud not allow her to be buried; but when descomposi- tion began to set in they consented to a post-mortem examination, which revealed dropsy as the cause of her death. Kobert Matthews, in America, at the beginning of this century, took up the profession of prophet, and entered on an extraordinary career of imposture, fraud and crime. He was arrainged for murder, but only convicted for as- salting his daughter with a whip. Of his latter days we have no account, nor are his blasphemous and nefarious doings worth recording further. (Juwer. A FAIR EXCHANGE. Why a Detroit Tay-Payer Preferred a Patent Door-Spring. Whetstone to He slid quietly into a Jefferson ave nue hardware store yesterday forenoon, unrolled a paper on the counter, and as he held up a patent door-spring he said: "I buy him two days ago, und I like to oxchange him for a wheatstonc." "What's the matter?" "Vhell, I can't make him fit on my screen door;" "Why, that's the easiest thing in the world. See here: This end screws on the door, and that end on the casing." "I tried him dot vhay, und he doan1 work." "When it is on you take this metal pin and turn the spring. See the holes there?" "I does dot vhay, und my screen doors flies open." "You turned the wrong way." "I turns him eatery way. Sometimes der door vhas wide open, und all der flies in Michigan go in, und sometimes he vash shut oop so tight I can't get in my own house. I begin on him in der morning, und I doan' leave off till night, but he won't work right." "That's curious. What tools did you have?" "I use a hammer und scrcw-diifcr und cold-shisel und saw und auger und crow-bar und lots of more, but he doan' 'spring for me. My wife works at him, too, und my hired man he lose half a 'day, und I vash discouraged. I guess I trade him fpr a whealstone." "Well, Til exchange with you. but I'm sure I can show you how to adjust it." "I guess I doan' try any more. Yon see, my life vhas short, und I can't spare so mooch time mit machine ry. If I get a wheatstone I doan' haf to screw him on nor turn him around. Dcre vhas no pins or ratchets iu his stomach. He vhas all right both ends oop. Maype he doan' keep oudt flies, but he makes no troubles for me." ' The exchange was made, and the man went away light-hearted, calling back from the door: "I can make oudt a wheatstone all right, und I vhas obliged mit you. A wheatstone winds oop only one vhay." r-Detroit Free Press. THE WHITE HOUSE. What Its maintenance Costs the Conntry In Connection with the President. Most people believe that the $50,000 a year which the President gets as his salary is the sum total. This is a mistake. The estimate of the amount Which Congress is to appropriate this year lies before us, open at the page relating to the President We see that S36.084 is asked for him, iu addition to his salary of $00,000, to pay the salaries of his subordinates and clerks His private secretary is paid $3,250, his assistant private secretary $2,250, his stenographer $1,800, five messen gers each $1,200, a steward, $1,800, two door-keepers who each get $1,200, four other clerks at good salaries, one tele- fraph operator, two ushers getting 1,200 and $1,400, a night usher getting $1,200, a watchman who gets $900, and a man to take care oi hres who receives $864 a year. In addition to this there is set down $8,000 for incidental expenses, such as stationery, carpets and the care ol the President s stables. And further on, under another heading. there. is a demand for nearly $40,000 more. Of this $12,500 is for repairs and furnishing the White House, $2,500 lor fuel, $3,000 is for the green house. and $15,000 is for gas, matches and the stables. Ihe White House, all told. costs the country, In connection with the President, considerably over $125,- duu a year. ban Francisco World. A settlement near Tacom a, W. T., has the euphonious name of Succotash Valley. .... A GREAT PROJECT. An English View of the Hudson Bay Route from Canada to England. The commencement of a railway which will run northwards, from the heart of the Canadian Dominion to Hudson Bay, again raises the question of a shipping route by way of Hudson Bay and Strait to England. Dr. Bell, of tho Canadian Geological Survey, when the matter was being discussed some years ago, said that the proposed route by rail from Winnipeg to Fort Churchill, on Hudson Bay, thence by steamer to England, would be twelve hundred and ninety-one miles shorter than the Montreal route, and about seventeen hundred miles as compared with the New York route. Port Nelson, at the mouth of the Nelson river, has been finally chosen as the terminus of the proposed railway from Winnipeg. The mouth of the Nelson is reported to be open all winter for twenty or twenty-five miles up, owing to the tide. Its average width lor that distance up is about three miles. At Seal Island, twenty-five miles up, there is a capital harbor, and water enough for any ocean steamer. Hudson Bay forms the central basin for the drainage of the northern portion of North America; and of the many rivers which flow into it from all sides, about thirty are of considerable size. The Albany and the Churchill are the longest on the western side; but the Nelson, with a course of only about four hundred miles, carries the largest body of water down to the sea, and may be ascended by small steamers for about seventy or eighty miles. Before the navigation of tho bay was understood, it was usual to take two seasons for a voyage from England; and the Captain who was fortunate enough to return the same year was awarded a prize of fifty pounds. Since 1884, the Canadian Government has received reports from observers stationed along the coasts of the strait and on the islands as to the navigable nature of the bay and strait. Lieutenant Gordon, in 1884 and 1885, seemed to be of opinion that the bay and strait would in ordinary seasons, so far as ice and weather considerations are concerned, be practicable for Northwest trade by tolerably well-built vessels for four months. The bay is reported as navigable at all times, as it never completely freezes over; nor does the strait, the ice met with there being floe-ice from Fox's Channel. The report of the select committee of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly in charge of the question, in 1885, was to that effect that ports on the shores of the bay are open on an average from four and a half to five months in each year to ordinary vessels, and that both bay and strait seemed to bo singularly free from obstruction to navigation in the shape of shoals or reefs, and during the period of open water iroin storms ana fogs. Should this shipping route by way of Hudson Bay and Strait to England prove a practicable one, even for a few months in summer, it will enable the Canadians to send us grain and produce from the great Northwest at even a cheaper rate than they they have been doing hitherto. Chambers' Journal. PLAUSIBLE OPINIONS. T! An American Scientist's Idea of the Formation of Nortb America. The opinion is expressed by an eminent American scientist, in . a recent lecture, that the North American Continent had the beginning of its form ation in islands of matter rising out of the immense ocean, which grew until they finally touched each other. Many of these islands were volcanoes that throw up matter that had formed below the surface of the water, and were larger below the water than above it. The Hawaiian Islands have had "many volcanoes and were much formed by them. Their whole area above the sea is no more than that of the State of Massachusetts, but their combined bases must be equal to the whole of JNew England and JNew York united, Thus the original islands of thi3 con tinent could easily have been made to enlarge and join each other, and the granite rock so abundant was doubtless once erupted from volcanoes, like flow ing lava. Among the first volcanic islands must have been Greenland, Canada east of Winnipeg, the Atlantic district, the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas: but as the islands rose and enlarged great depressions would naturally commence and go on, and in this way the depressions of Hudson's Bay, the Mississippi Valley, and the Salt Lake and .Nevada basins were formed. These depressions would fill with mass ive sediments, which would eventually become rocks, and the depressions would have a saucer or platter shape JS. X. bun. SWEEPING DAY. How It Can Be Bobbed of Some of Its Alost Disagreeable Features . If you look at your house-work as the means to a delightful home, it will not seem hard or hateful; even the dreaded sweeping day, which I own to liking worse than wash day, leads to the repose of fresh, fragrant rooms, and a sanctity from dust and defacement. It need not be quite so much a penance it you have proper aids. (These are covers of glazed cambric tor large furniture, carpet sweeper, brushes, patience, care, etc.) - If you sweep with a broom, use damp tea leaves, bran, coarse meal saw-dust or dry' snow, to keep down the dust, remembering to have these things damp, not wet; to sprinkle only a yard or two where you mean to sweep at once, and to t;jke it up with the sweepings before you go to the next place. Brushing a clamp mass of dust and trash over a whole icarpet is not the way to improve it. iFino carpets like Wilton or Moquette should be swept with the pile to keep them from wearing; and dealers say that Brussels should be swept only one way. It is a good rule always to begin at the corner tartuest irom the door. taking up the dust every yard or two. .Take rugs up, bringing opposite sides together, not to spill the dust; lay them faoo down on green sward, or hang them so out of windows, and beat the backs till all the dust is out. Beating on the face sends the dust into the firm woven ground of the rugs. Baptist Weekly. A Juvenile Tilt. First Boy My pa blows a horn in the band. Second Boy That ain't nothin'. F. B. Mischief it ain't; mo'an your your ole pa can do. My pa goes to parties an' picnics an' your ole pa can't go there. S. B. Yes, an' my pa is in the peni tentiary an' your ole pa can't go there, eitner. ArKansaw Traveler. A strange accident happened to a consignment of heavy cattle sold for Shipment to England. Rough weather was encountered on the voyage, and the stanchions to which the cattle were tied gave way, forcing the stock to the other side of the ship and causing it to careen so much that to lighten the vessel the cattle were thrown overboard, a loss of $13,000. A PLANT HOSPITAL. How Siokly Shrubs aid Honse-Plants are Doctored and Cured. "Heard I had started what?" ex claimed Mr. Rose, the florist. 'A plant hospital for sick and debil itated posies." "Well, I guess you'd think so. I began to think of establishing another branch to my business last fall and calling it a consumptives' home." "You dont mean to say that the busi ness is so extensive as to warrant making aspecialty of it?" "You just drop around here the sccpnd week in September and see the perlect avalanche of scrawny, half- starved, neglected, bilious, and colicky-looking patients I have consigned to my care for the winter, expecting that l can put new lite into them before spring comes again and return them to their homes in full bloom of health. Why, actually, I have had dead patients brought in for me to bring to life again, and no amount of persuasion on my part could make the parties bringing them believe but what it could be done." "What class of invalids are usually brought in?" '.tropical plants, rubbers, lobelias and camellias. They are families brought up in the South whose peculiar, delicate constitution is not adapted to tho jump-jack changes of weather in the North around the lakes. The business is a great annoyance, for I can not make any profit from it to speak of; but, as the parties asking to nave tneir patients cared tor are my best winter customers, I can not well refuse them." "Who are they principally?" "People who live on the swell avenues, who travel a great deal go abroad part of the winter and to the seaside in the summer." "Do you have any plants to board during the summer?" "Yes, but not so many in proportion to what I receive in the fall. While people are away at the seaside or mountains I play doctor and visit their pets, administer physic and perform Burgical operations, amputate diseased and affected limbs. Do you see that load on the wagon outside? They have been here all winter. They looked like a batch of driod-up weeds when I took them in." "What, was dona trt t.hp.m tn hrmo them to the condition they are in now? "We changed the loam, put m a fertilizer, and kept them well trimmed through the winter. A small shrub that is kept trimmed has less branches to draw away the vitality of the plant stock, and is far more liable to blossom heavily and last longer than plants left to shape themselves. Again, they present a more symmetrical appear ance and please the eye thereby." "flow lonw has this business been a custom? Where did it originate?" "Where it originated I do not believe any one could tell you, and I suppose it has been in vogue to a small extent as long ago as people who kept house plants and private conservatories were obliged to have some one take care of them while they traveled." Chicago Tribune. .. MARRIAGE IN BRAZIL. Consanguineous Unions the Rule Instead of the Exception. Consanguineous marriages in Brazil are the rule and not the exception, there being really more such than of those between parties not related by blood. There are very many, not only between first cousins but also between double first cousins; and there are probably more marriages between a man and his niece, or a woman and her nephew, than there are of first cousins in America, even without taking into consideration the fact that the population of the United States is four or five times as large as that of Brazil. It seems most ludicrous to the stranger to hear a man and his wife address each other as cousins, as they generally do when such was their relationship. In many cases not only was the union of the parents consanguineous, but also that of the grandparents, and;in some cases even further back. Surely this has its effect on the intellect of their' offspring, though not so marked and invariable as one might naturally suppose. For some of the children are apparently as intelligent as those of people not related by blood. But this' proves nothing unless it is their good fortune, and even these probably pay me penalty in some other way. The people of Brazil are by nd aieans intelligent as a race generally,' but this is chiefly due in part to the. t J -1 x u. aunuuuu ui uuuua.j.iuuiii muuiues; lut lb is no easy matter for the poor people in any part of the country to acquire sven the rudiments of an education, and for those- outside of the towns it is virtually impossible. Probably to consanguineous marriages are due not only some loss of intellectual power, but also the facts that the people are, as a rule, homely,. Bxceedingly nervous, and not vigorous, though these conclusions may be quali-fiable, for the lack of vigor may be due partly to the climate and their lazy, inactive lives, and their nervousness may be attributable to the quantity of strong coffee they all drink from early childhood, and the habit of excessive smok ing; amongst the men and boys. The features of the white people are, for the most part, irregular. Generally they have coal-black hair and beautiful black eyes. Sometimes the teeth are very fine, and the hands of those of the best .families are beauti fully soft and very flexible, a most natural sequence, as these people, having many slaves, never perform any work themselves, nor have their immediate ancestors before them, to impair their delicacy. But whatever beauty they do possess will frequently be marred by ugly skins, noses, mouths or other features, whilst the face may lack a cultivated, rehned expression, which gives place to the sensual. But this i3 no invariable rule, for some are handsome, intelligent andrefined-looking. Brooklyn Magazine. Strictly Private Families. A lady advertised for board in a strictly private family. She received two hundred and fifty-five answers by actual count. She was able to respond to only thirty or forty. Following was the dialogue in each case: "Do you have a strictly private family?""O, yes, indeed." "How many persons have you in your house r "Twenty, ma'a'm." "Twenty, and yet you say you have a private ianniyr ' "Yes, ma'a'in," with an air of in jur, ed pride, "but they are all friends of mine, who board with me. Merchant Traveler. F. Carroll Brewster, an eminent Philadelphia lawyer, in a recent letter. says: "ror ten years to come no man should dream of studying law unless he' sees directly before him a certain open ing as partner, helper or successor to an: established and lucrative practice. " The main building of the New Or leans Exposition was put up at auction the other day. it cost over half million dollars, but the highest bid re ceived was $9,o&u. fl. v, Times. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. The trustees of Columbia College at a recent meeting decided to admit in future to their association women on exactly the same footing as men. N. X. lrioune. Harvard is still the larffest collea-e in the country; Oberlin conies second. and Columbia lias fallen to third place; Michigan is fourth, and Yale fifth. Liucago Inter Ocean. Julia Foot, a colored cvans-elist. has been conducting revival meeting's in Denver. She is described as a good preacher, with strong, full voice and considerable natural ability. Oscar H. Cooper, who has been chosen State Superintendent it Public Instruction in Texas, is only twenty-eight years of age. lie is a graduate of Yale College. Chicago Mail. About one-fifth of the nonulatlon of Philadelphia Ls in the Sunday-school. There are in the. city 650 Sundav- schools, with an attendance of 186,835 scholars and over 16,000teachers.--Philadclnhia Press. The total receipts of the Methodist Missionary Society during the first six months of the present fiscal year, from November 1 to April 30, 1886, were $462,746.72. This is an increase over the corresponding six months of the previous year of $83,617.04. The Interior.The colored Methodists have now the largest church in Washington. Il is on M street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, northwest, in a fash ionable neighborhood. It cost $116.- 000, of which all but $40,000 has been raised, and seats 2,800 psople. Wash ington Post. In the State of Iowa there are 254 Congregational churches; thev have 217 ministers, 18,223 members", 26,079 in . the Sunday-schools: they have church property valued at $855,480, ana parsonages at $b8,700. They pay their pastors $132,600, and for benevo lent purposes gave last year over $33,- 000. Iowa Slate Register. The Presbyterian General Assem bly has decided to hold the one hun dredth lienerai Assembly at Phila.iul phia in 1888, and to make the second Thursday of the session a day of jubilee in the churches all over the world. It has also been decided to raise a cen tenary fund of $5,000,000 for the bene- nt of the various church enterprises. Christian at Work. The pastor of the colored church atFort Gaines, Ga., succeeded in having the church debt liquidated in a very novel manner, xne members had bound themselves under a promise to pay it, and a few Sundays ago the pastor informed them that if they did not pay it at once he would turn them out of church for lying. The next Sun day each member of tho congregation brought $1.50, and the debt was paid Chicago Times. A case involving the right of cities in Georgia to collect taxes upon church property has been decided in favor of the churches by the Supreme Court of that State. It was a suit of the city of Atlanta to collect the assessment for street-paving from the churches thus k..nt-J tuc.,., rr 1 j - that public policy required the encour agement of church work and that the congregation were not subject to tax ation, no matter under what guise it was sought to be collocted. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. "Isn't it heavenly?" ejaculated Miss Uush in reference to Miss Pedal s per formance on the piano. "Yes," replied Fogg, "it is indeed heavenly. It sounds like thunder. aoston Transcript. The Salvation Army at Washington has converted a dude. He can already pronounce the letter R, and next week will venture forth for the first timo without a cane. Philadelphia Call. The writer of the new song, Love You, Darling, in My Dreams," should not forget that dreams go by contraries. Little mistakes like this sometimes produce a discord. Wash mqton Critic. "It is about time to cry halt on slantr11 ahnnta t.lin Pif.thnro-li 7Vp- grapi. You bet. It's time slang had Elaycd out. let s all give it the grand ounce knock it higher'n a kite, as it were. Nomstown Herald. Adoring grandmother "Isn't he a lovely chiidr Jaim visitor "xes he's a nice little baby." Adoring grandmother "And so intelligent! He just lies there all day and breathes, and breathes, and breathes. ban iran-cisco News-Letter. "Well you are a nice sort of fellow, anyway," said a somewhat persistent lawyer to a witness who had proved rather a "dry milker" to his diligent cross-examination. "I would say as much of you, sir," retorted the witness, "if I were under oath." Peck's Sun. Wife(Sunday night) "Where have you been, John?" Husband "Been t' sacred concert listening to (hie) sacred music." Wife (sarcastically) "Yes, and drinking sacred beer and whisky, and smoking sacred cigars. If there are saints on this earth, John Smith, you are one of them." Life. "Mary Ann, what was you sitting up last night reading? Was it a novel? Tell your mother. "Yes, it was a novel." "An' who writ it?" "Dumas the Elder.". "Now, don't tell me that. Who ever heard of an elder writin' a novel that you'd sit up half the night and read." N. Y. Independent. "Pretty? No, I won't say baby is nretty," declared a young mother, "for t can speak of him impartially, even though he is my own, and that's more than most mothers can do. He has lovely blue eyes, perfect in shape; hair like the morning sunshine; mouth well, no rosebud could be sweeter; somplexion divinely fair; nose just too sunning for any thing; in fact, he's faultless. But I won't say he's pretty." Harper's Bazar. AT THE AUCTION. Veracious Account of a Meeting Between Sinarty and the Auctioneer. And it came to pass after the going down of the sun that young Smarty was passing the mart where a certain man cried out in a loud voice; "Two im I offered; do I hear two and a half?" "Aha!" cried young Smarty, turning to the companions who attended him. "behold! the auctioneer. Let us enter in, and mark howl will paralyze him." So entered they in. And still the voice of the auctioneer was lifted up: "And a haf'n a haf'n a haf'n a ha'f. Anybody say three-quarters?" Three-quartejs said they not. "Prythee, sir," said young Smarty, "will you allow me to make a bid?" For Smarty, the juvenile, had read in the chronicles how a man had once propounded that query to an auctioneer who stood in the market place, and on his replying; "Yea, verily." he said; "Then I bid you good night." As the ox goeth to the slaughter, so marched Smarty up to the very front of the auctioneer. Will you allow me to make a bid?" Up spake the auctioneer, who was fly with regard to the ways of the un- godly: "io, I will not. I never take bids ffom children and fools." Then the people laughed Smarty to corn and he slunk away, sorrowing. Texas Sitings. A SORRY POLITICIAN. General Hancock's Unfortunate Position In 1876, so Universally Upheld by the Democracy. At the recent meeting of the Military Service Institution a letter was read from Secretary Bayard warmly eulo gizing the stand General Hancock took in the Hayes-Tilden contest of 1876. Referring to the remarkable letter Hancock sent to General Sherman in December of that year, Mr. Bayard says "that no wiser, abler, or more patriotic deliverance; no sounder con ception oi constitutional duty and function can be found in the history of that period than is contained in the letter of General Hancock." This may be the accepted Democratic view of tho epistle in question, but there are a great many neonle who hold thn hio-h- est respect for the military services of General Hancock who are nevertheless compelled to believe that in December, 1876, he did injustice to his record as a poldier and proved himself an indifferent, if not adano-er-ous, politician. It is one of the singular inconsistencies of Hancock's career that while in the field he yielded the most implicit obedience to orders, yet, after being smitten w ith the Presidential fever, ho was inclined to question the authority of his superior officers whenever he thought their demands ran counter to the interests of the Democratic party. This was shown when he was sent to New Orleans charged with the enforcement of the reconstruction acts of Congress, but proceeded to. neglect and nullify his orders to such an extent that he had to be changed from that command. The same disposition was illustrated in the letter written in December, 1876. Hancock's letter to Sherman was merely a notification that he (Hancock) would do every thing in his power as a Major-General in the regular army to secure the inauguration of Tilden as President. The document can not be construed as having any other . meaning. Referring to the Electoral count, he said: "If a failure to agree arises between the two bodies there can be no lawful affirmative decision that the people have elected a President, and the House must then proceed to act, not the Senate." Again he said: "That machinery would probably elect Mr. Tilden President and Mr. Wheeler Vice-President" The inauguration of Tilden was the only solution Hancock would recognize, and he proposed to use his power as an army officer to secure that result. He declared emphatically that General Grant's authority as President and Commander-in-Chief would terminate March 3, and even asserted that the Secretary of War would not holdover. He admitted, that Sherman would continue as General of the army on and after March 4, but immediately added: "Should the military authorities be invoked it is necessary in such great crises for the superior officers of the army, and especially for those near the head of it, to dare to determiae for themselves what is lawful and what is not lawful under our system." - Thus Hancock, who had been exalted by the Democratic party for his supposed doctrine that the military must be kept subordinate to the civil power, announced that he would defy the orders of his superior officers and the authority of Congress and determine for himself what he thought right. It is fortunate for General Hancock's fame that he had no opportunity to carry out his revolutionary doctrines In 1876. General Grant understood Hancock's position thoroughly, and was prepared to deal with him or any other rebellious officers of the army in a very effective manner. In view of the emergency then existing Grant held that his duty extended to the inauguration of his successor, and he would have seen to it that the candidate declared elected, whether Tilden or Hayes, was installed. Incidentally he would have taken steps to see that the subordinate officers of the army obeyed their orders. Hancock was a-gallant soldier, but a sorry politician, and his friends do no kindness to his memory by recalling the fact. In attemntinfr to servn thn Tlpmnoi-otin party he at one time announced the uiuaii exuaoriuuary aooennes as to the supremacy of the civil power, even in rebellious States. arwl at nnnthor claimed the right as a military com- uiauuer io sei me decisions. of civil tribunals aside and determine his course lor himself. Chicago Tribune. A Knock-Down Blow. The statements made by Mr. His-cock during the discussion of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill in the House of Representatives' committee of the whole, relating to Government expenditures and estimated revenue, was calculated to startle the self-.tyled revenue reformers. The figures submitted by him were obtained from all available sources, including the Treasury Department and the flDnrnnriatinn bills now passed and pending. Without gmiig them here in detail, it may Receipts, $330,000,000; expenditures, $344,767,000; deficiency over 14.000.- 000. Here is ample confirmation of the charge repeatedly made that the purpose of the Democratic leaders is to make as good a showing as possible lor themselves, with a view of influ encing the elections this year, leaving out of sight as far as possible the fact that, under their management, the cost of maintaining the Government will be enormously in excess of appearances, involving the necessity of future appropriations to meet an inevitable deficit. This is a character istic performance, which has been again and again repeated with varying euecu in nis estimate lor isa JSlr. Morrison, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, sought to show that there would be a surplus, but Mr. Hiscock's presentment makes the appropriations exceed Mr. Morrison's calculations by about $85,000,000. Troy (iv. x.) Times. BgThe representatives of the Grand Army of the Republic who were treated so rudely by Mr. Morrison when they asked for a conference with him in relation to a bill proposing to provide, at trie nations! expense, for Union sol diers now m the poor-houses and charitable institutions of the country are likely to demand an explanation of his conduct. Mr. Morrison s manner was. the Grand Army Committee say, absolutely insulting. The gentlemen rep resented, however, a much larger con stituency than he, an organization of from 300,000 to 400,000 citizens of the United States. Had they been a committee of British manufacturers Mr. Morrison might have welcomed them into the Ways and Means Committee-room and listened to their petitions all day. Philadelphia Press. JST'General Black, Commissioner of Pension?, intends visiting the Pacific coast this summer. Could not Minneapolis induce him to come as an "exhibit" to the Exposition? He would be well worth his floor space. A "complete physical wreck" that has yet energy enough left in its shattered remains to preside over the Pension Department, and audacity enough to go on at the same time drawing a pension itself for being incapacitated for doing any thing, is a curiosity which ousht to draw. MinnewoUs Tribune. THAT NATIONAL SCANDAL. No Possible Excuse for the Attempted Theft of the "Buckeye" State by the Democracy. The erstwhile steady-going capital of Ohio is bidding high for notoriety. During the winter and spring Columbus was the only State capital having a sensation factory in operation. The news from Albany and the few other, capitals where legislation was in progress would be tame and flat, while the namesake of the great discoverer could be counted upon with reasonable certainty to rival, if not surpass, the national capital in supplying spice for the breakfast table. The Legislature has now passed into the limbo of the has-beens, but the capitol still stands and the factory still runs. Tho latBst output of news is fully up to the Co- lumuus stanuara oi spicy reading. ii general intelligence Irom the outside world penetrates the thick walls mr. Joseph j. Mackin's cell, he must be ETeen with enw. His fino work in Chicago, for which he was awarded free transDortatinn to .Tnliot was the coarsest bungle, the simplest crudity, as compared with the forgery just reported from Ohio's capital. The fenerai iaci in tne case was very well nown before, namely, that the Columbus tally-sheets, after last fall's election, and pending the count, were so altered as to change 208 to 508. Ol course to change the footing involved only the alteration of onp ficm m to make the details of the tallies justify me ioonn? was the run. ' ' hat. th i task was actually accomplished was ioug ago esiaonsned. .But now the hero of it all is comino- to lio-ht It seems that the papers were takes Saturday night to the penitentiary, which is located at the capital, and an expert iorger set to work at the alterations necessary. To guard against interruptions, the work was done in the insane ward of thn hnsnitai Ma v,qh that night and Sunday to work in. The fellow was promised a pardon as his rewara. it is almost superfluous to add that he was cheated out of his pay. Governor Hoadly is a very bitter Dem ocrat, but an honest man. The report says tnac the warden of the peniteu tiary was not in the secret. If that bs so then the management mnst hnvn been very loose. But, however that may nave been, the evidence is said trt ue ampie mat tae iorgery was dono within these walls, and was an important part of the general conspiracy to steal the Legislature, and with it tho seat in the United States Senate occu pied by John Sherman. It mav be set down as a fixed fact that whoever the tools may have been the coal-oil go-an furnished the boodle. - There should be no trifling with a matter so serious as this. Sir Henry Maim? contends that if this Republic survives and nrosners it will hn tha first really successful experiment at self guvermueni, ana ne mignt nave added that its chief peril in these days is from practical aeniai oi tne right of suffrage. .... .i ...... .ivi..,i uu. UdllUK box stuffer pleads the clannishness and ignorance of the negro as his excuse, but such frauds as were perpetrated in Cincinnati and Columbus last fall are without the least shadow of an excuse. To allow that sort of crime to go unpunished would be to invite the overthrow of the Government by under' minin.p- its foundation. The Southern rebellion was indeed, as General Locan hrino-a nnt. an mn. spicuously in his book, "The Great r i , . .. .... conspiracy, dui it was also the inev itable OUt?rOWth Of a svst.p.m nf lahnr a class of property which the conspira A I J t . , rx. . ii . . . wrs nan lnneniea. ne unio conspiracy, however, can not be said to have roots of growth in the common soil. It was a plot having its origin solely in the unscrupulous determination of a clique to control the politics of Ohio, by foul means, if not by fair, by brib ery ana iorgery n necessary, in pursuance of that policy , George H. Pen dleton was driven from the Senate and into virtual exne, and Judge Thurman cast into outer darkness, deprived oi participation in the long-delayed triumph of his party. , Not content with seizing the Democracy, with all : t i. i , i us ucioiigiugs, tne conspirators resolved to capture the State, and de- iraua tne majority out oi their fairly- earned victory at the polls. Herein they overreached. So lonar as the on erations were confined within party limits the general public looked on without taking a hand in the contest. But when it comes to tampering with returns and practicing crime against the State it ia hio-h timn t.n fpat. tho virtues of that whip of scorpions which jjisuue is supposed to carry ior use in exireuie cases. unicago irner ucean. REPUBLICAN BRIEFS. JJGeneral Butler strikes the dodu- lar heart when he says there is a demand for a strong foreign policy. The ieenng is growing every day. Daven pert Gazette. S-It is rather humiliating to have Mexico complain of the nia-srardlv do! iev of this Govprnmpnt in T-po-ai-fl tr,tl.a carriage of the mails, yet tnis is what has resulted from the "reforms" of Secretary Vilas. It is the unhappy lot oi tne present Administration to economize in the only department of the public service where economy was not needed. ban n rancisco Chronicle. JIThere is an epidemic of lying amorfg Democratic papers about the Maine Republicans. The nomination of J. R. Bodwell for Governor, on the first ballot, by a more than four-fifths vote, gives a quietus to their falsehoods regarding dissentions in the Republican ranks. September will show an old- time Republican majority in the Pino tree state, and the slogan for November w 11 be: 4'As goes Maine, so goes the Union." Toledo Blade. JJMr. Randall, or any one like him, would be "snowed under" by the ballots of a Presidential election. It would be hard to pick out a decent Republican who would not beat him so badly that his nomination would seem like ancient nistory in a month after election. We don't expect to persuade Mr. Randall of this fact, but if there fere any thoughtless Democrats who are inclined to side with hsn, they would do well to reflect upon it before it is too lata. iv. x. Times. S& Many a brave and worthy soldier strugs.fid through the war with out giving up, only to die at th end of the war, or to carry with him ihe disabilities that he received, without a murmur. And now, because such a man has no "hospital record," and was too proud and patriotic to make complaint or give up, it is ruled by the President that he will veto the olaiuis of all such, by which means he expects io maKe capital ior nimseu as a "reformer." Indianapolis Journal. i"In the palmy days of the Democratic party the platforms denounced the veto power. Uld-fashioned Democrats regarded the veto as an instru ment of tyranny, and this prerogative of the Executive was to be used only in cases where the constitutionality of a measure was in question. Mr. Cleve- iana departs as widely as possible from the old rule. . He goes so far as to overrule the people who make a de mand, and Congress as well, in the matter of the construction of public buildings. This is trying in itself to tho old-school Democrats, but the language used makes the veto little more than an impertinence. Chicagt inter wean. CONGRESSIONAL. Bbkatb, June 24. After routine morninw business the Senate took up the bill providing for the appointment and compensation! of a United States District Judge for thaj Northern district of Alabama. Mr. Loean moved as an amendment the provision of aj bill heretofore passed by the Senate fixing-all district iuds-es salarfea at n.in a vpar.i The amendment wffs agreed to, and the bill un)uue wbb pwseuu. j.ne oui repealing?, the pre-emption and timber culture laws was1; then taken up and passed veas 34, nays 20.1 The Fltz-John Porter bill was laid before the Senate and Mr. Sewell made a speech in sujv.1 port of the measure. Mr. Ixivau obtained! the floor to reply to Mr. Sewell, when tliei Senate went into executive session and soom arter adjourned. j House. The morninv hour was dianensmt1 with, and the House went into Cotnmitee of the Whole on thehundry Civil bill, consider-l ation of which occup'ed the entire day.' When the committee rose the House ad-! journed. . ; Sesate. June 25. The Fitz-John Portr billi was taken up and Mr. Logan made a lengthy1 speech in opposition to the measure, main-. tafnlng that Porter disobeyed orders and thereby jeopardized the success of theTJnion. armies, tie also ODJectea to the bill on constitutional grounds. Mr. Plumb, of Kansas,1, and several other Senators participated in' the debate, and after a number of amendments had been offered and voted down the bill was brought to a vote and i-ased-yeaa , 30, nays 17. Having already pasil the House the bill now goes to the President for his Signature. Adjourned until the 28th. House. The Speaker laid before the House " the various veto messages transmitted b the President, which were read and appro-' Innw5iy reierrea. a joint resolution was' passed appointing General William J. Sewell, of New Jersey, General Martin T. McMahon, of New York, and Captain J. L. Mitchell, of Wisconsin, to fill vacancies on the board of managers of the national homes for disabled veterans. In Committee of the Whole tho nouse resumed consmeration of the Sundry Civil bill. When the committee rose the House took a recess until evening, which was devoted to the consideration of pension bills. Senate, June 26. The Senate was not In session. House. Mr. Crisp, of Geororia. submitted the conference report on the bill requiring the land grant railroads to pay the cost of selecting, conveying and surveying their lands. (As the bill originallv passed tho House it applied only to the Union Pacific system, but as amended by the Senate and agreed to by the conference committees its provisions are extended to all land grant roads.) The report was adopted. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, consideration of which occupied the remainder of the day, about half of the bill being com- Sieiea wnen tne committee rose and the .ouse adjourned. Senate, June 28. The Chair laid before the Senate resolutions of the City Council and Board of Trade of Zanesville, asking the passage of the bill for a public building in Zanesville. nnrwithRtanHinv fh Pm.i. dent's veto; also several memorials in favor in ine oui taxing oleomargarine. Tho bill granting a pension of flOU per month to Emily J. Stannari, widow of General Stannard, of Vermont, was passed. The' report of the conforence committee on the Post-office Approriation bill was laid before the Senate, the committee stating that it was unable to agree (the question being upon the subsidy provision. A motion by Mr. Plumb that the Senate ins st on its amendment was agreed to yeas 33, navs 13. After an executive session the Senate adjourned. House. tinder the call of States a number of ollls, etc., were introduced and referred, among them one by Mr. Bandar,, of Pennsylvania, to reduoe and equalize duties on imports, to reduce internal revenue taxes and to modify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenue. The House then went into Committee ol the Whole and resumed consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Without reaching a conclusion on the bill the committee rose and the House adjourned. Senate, June 29. The Benate resumed consideration of the bill to quit titles of settlers on the Des Moines lands and after arguments by Mr. Evarts in support of the veto and by Mr. Allison and Mr. Wilson in favor of the bill, it was passed over the President's veto by the requisite two-thirds majority-yeas 34, nays 15. Mr. Plumb submitted the conference report on the Armv Appropriation bill which was agreed to. The bill now appropriates $150,000 less than it did as It passed the House. The joint resolution appointing General William J. Sewell, of New Jersey, General Martin T McMahon, of New York, and Captain John h. Mitchell, of Wisconsin, managers of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers, to fill vacancies, was passed- The Senate then proceeded to consider the bill making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Government, but without action adjourned.House. Mr. Burnes, of Missouri, reported the General Deficiency bill, and it was referred to the Committee of the Whole; (it appropriates $6,062,845.) Reports of conference committees on the Pension Appropriation bUl, the Army Appropriation bill, aud the Agricultural Appropriation bill were submitted and agreed to. The House then went Into Committee of the Whole on the Sundry C vil Appropriation bill, consideration- of which was continued until adjournment. WRITTEN SPEECHES. ,. A Class of Legislators Whose Oratorical Efforts Would Not Be Hissed. There is a form" of discussion that goes on in the House which deserves due reprobation and that is the reading of written speeches. A vast deal of time is consumed to no business put-pose. These things are almost entirely for home consumption. They usually begin at the origin of human affairs, and are full to repletion with that kind of knowledge which takes it for granted that the reader's mind is a blank on the subject. I say "reader's" as it is very seldom that this kind of an oration has any hearers, for when a member pulls out a pile of manuscript the action,, except in rare instances, is regarded as an invitation to the rest of the members to mind their own business, whichthey immediately proceed with one accord to do with all their might. It may be added as a curious fact in natural history that many a member who has passed a whole hour in reading what nobody has listened to will beg with pathetic fervor and insistence for another five or ten minutes in which to render himself hoarse by reading what he has full liberty to print Perhaps it is because, his eyes filled with his own handwriting, and his ears soothed and charmed by the mellifluence of his own voice, his soul transcends the unworthy House and seems to be pouring itseif into the ears of the whole population of the country, variously estimated at from 55,000,000 to 58,000,000. Some day or other the natural historian of the race will take philosophic recognizance of this phenomenon, and to him this solution is timidly but respectfully offered. But the Congressman is not entirely to be blamed. In fact, perhaps he is not to be blamed at all. It is only a supply which answers a demand. The fault probably lies with the American people who unreasonably demand that their legislators shall be orators, and shall prove that they are such by visible results. If they only realized how much time was wasted in such efforts, and how little attention was paid to them, they would measure the virtues of their members by other and truer standards. Hon. T. B. Reed, in Chautauquan. THE SUWANEE. " Romance of the Dark Hirer Known as tho Penobscot of Florida. Once over the bar at its entrance from the Gulf the Suwanee river holds its way with a deep current, in places of forty feet, far up through the forest of the best hard pine in the State. It is the Penobscot of Florida. It ias some good land upon it where plantations have heretofore been made but after awhile generally abandoned. The mosquitoes and malaria guard in the main entrance against others than lumbermen, anglers, and intrusive tourists. This dark river has, too, its romance as being the place which gave rise to a melody which, like "Sweet Home," the affections of the heart will never let go. For it was here that a French family in the time of Louis XIV. came over and settled upon the Suwanee and made a plantation. After awhile the father and mother and all died save one daughter, who, disheartened and desolate, returned to France and there wrote, adopting in part the negro dialect, which she had been familiar with on the plantation in her girlhood, a feeling tribute to the "old Folks at home" in their graves iu thfl far off country. Interior.